National Merit Program

High school students enter the National Merit program by taking the Preliminary SAT. About 16,000 students, representing less than 1 percent of U.S. high school students, qualify as semifinalists and will further compete for one of 2,500 National Merit $2,500 Scholarships.

Local semifinalists are:

Deering High School: Siena Butterfield, Sebastian Pinkham, Rebecca Silver and Sarah Varney.

Kennebunk High School: Rachel Magalski and William Records.

Portland High School: Lydia-Rose Kesich.

South Portland High School: Kyle Burnham.

 

AP Scholar Awards

Catherine McAuley High School, Portland: Students who qualified for the AP Scholar Award: Grace Fosler and Amelia Krahe, both of Scarborough; Julia Haverty, Portland; Victoria Hugo-Vidal, Buxton; Emma Kenney, North Yarmouth; Kathryn McManus, Bowdoin.

Cheverus High School, Portland:

Students who qualified for the AP Scholar Award: Mark Beahm, Louis Johnson, Kenneth Laughton, William Maxwell, Taylor Noonan, Abigail Norbert, Samuel Silberstein and Timothy Woods, all of Portland; Matthew Cartmell, Freeport; Kevin Connelly, Biddeford; Mark Dumond, Bowdoinham; Alexandra Kane, Brunswick; Shannon LoCascio, Scarborough; Eric Martin, Lyman; Jeanna Rodrigues, Westbrook; Anna Snook, Auburn; Andrew Snyder, Cumberland.

Students who qualified for the AP Honor Award: David Chandpen and Ian O’Malley, both of Portland; Elizabeth Cook, Scarborough; Taylor Dundas, Brunswick; Deirdre Lambert, Cumberland Foreside; Emily Machesney, Cumberland; Kelly Thomas, Westbrook.

Students who qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award: Meegan Daigler, Gorham; Evan Johnston, South Portland; Miriam Nielsen, Sidney.

South Portland High School:

Students who qualified for the AP Scholar Award: Maureen Blanchard, Matthew Brannen, Nickolas Brown, William Darling, Christina Fields, Samuel Knutsen, Lindsey LaPointe, Amanda Linscott, Joseph Luther, Eric Mills and Gregory Reinhold.

Students who qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Awards: Chelsea Bartlett, Elizabeth Hardy, William Jackson, Chad MacLeod and Katherine Murray.

Students who qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Awards: Evan Beck, Maxwell Berube, Kaiya Hansen and Savannah King.

Portland Public Schools:

Students who qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction Award: Corey Carmichael, Max Morris, Simon Thompson and Timothy Weber, all from Portland High School.

Five Deering High School students and two Portland High students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor Award: Marianne Anderson, Jami Leroy, Jean McCabe, Brian McRae, Brian Pedro, Sarina Selleck and Emma Wilson.

Ten Portland High students, nine Deering High students and one Casco Bay High School student qualified for the AP Scholar Award: Donald Bennett, Christian Bowe, Andrew Capelluti, Henry Cole, Nicholas Devlin, Sean Dowling, Melanie Floyd, Mikhaila Fogel, Marie Genova, Ryan Hawkins, Alexandra Jackson, Marguerite Kilbride, Jari Lanzalotta, Noah Major, Rachel Merrill, Izaak Njaa, Keleigh O’Neil, Rachel Regier, Noah Sleeper and Christine Stevens.

 

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