Littleton Public Schools is pleased to announce that the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) and the College Board’s National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) have recognized 11 LPS seniors for their outstanding academic careers throughout high school. Conducting nationwide scholarship programs, it is the goals of NMSC and NHRP to recognize students for their scholastic achievements and to increase support for such talented youth. These prestigious scholarship programs recognized students from all three of LPS’ district high schools. The Finalists are:
Maren Bilby (Heritage)—National Achievement Finalist
Madeline Hicks (Littleton)—National Merit Special Scholarship Finalist
Zoey Huey (Arapahoe)—National Merit Finalist
Ryan Marizza (Arapahoe)—National Merit Special Scholarship Finalist
Robert Mayer (Arapahoe)—National Merit Finalist
Hannah McDaniel (Heritage)—National Merit Finalist
Sanjay Patil (Arapahoe)—National Merit Finalist
Abigail Quesada (Arapahoe)—National Hispanic Scholar Finalist
Annika Reuter (Heritage)—National Merit Finalist
Gabriel Suszynski (Arapahoe)—National Hispanic Scholar Finalist
Grant Wilson (Arapahoe)—National Achievement Finalist
Annually, NMSC receives approximately 1.5 million entrants and names only 15,000 National Merit Finalists. Of Finalists, nearly 8,000 receive National Merit Scholarship awards. An additional 1,300 Special Scholarships are granted through corporations and business organizations. NMSC’s National Achievement Scholarship Program was created to recognize exceptional Black American high school students. Annually, from a pool of 160,000 entrants, the program names 1,300 Finalists and grants approximately 800 National Achievement Scholarships. The College Board’s NHRP was created to recognize exceptional Hispanic/Latino high school students. From of pool of more than 250,000, the program annually recognizes 5,000 students. NMSC and NHRP both use PSAT/NMSQT test scores as key criteria in the selection process. Scholarship recipients will be announced throughout the spring.
“Being selected as part of such an elite academic group says volumes about these students and their families. We couldn’t be more proud of their accomplishments,” said Superintendent Scott Murphy. “It also says a lot about our teachers and school communities. We have a large number of students who perform academically at this level each year.” Superintendent Murphy and the LPS Board of Education will recognize these students at the regularly scheduled Board Meeting on April 9, 2015.