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National Merit Honors Local Students

Schools around the region are applauding their students for being named Semifinalists in the 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program.

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The National Merit Scholarship Corporation honored more than 200 local students among approximately 16,000 national semifinalists in its 2013 National Merit Scholarship Program.

To qualify, about 1.5 million juniors took the Preliminary sat/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test during the last school year. The number of semifinalists in Pennsylvania is proportional to the Keystone State’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

Those honored as semifinalists are the highest scoring students in Pennsylvania.

Semifinalists must submit a detailed application to become a finalist. National Merit scholars are selected from the list of finalists.

Below is a list of local schools and how many National Merit Semifinalists were honored from each school. The National Merit Scholarship Program cautions against making comparisons between high schools or educational systems based on these numbers.

“The program does not measure the quality or effectiveness of education within a school, system, or state,” according to its press release.

School Semifinalists Academy Of Notre Dame De Namur 3 Agnes Irwin School 1 Archbishop Carroll High School 1 Archbishop Ryan High School 3 B. Reed Henderson High School 1 Baldwin School 6 Bayard Rustin High School 4 Central High School 4 Conestoga High School 35 Delaware County Christian School 1 Episcopal Academy 10 Father Judge High School 1 Friends Central School 6 Germantown Friends School 10 Great Valley High School 10 Harriton High School 11 Haverford High School 6 The Haverford School 3 J. R. Masterman Laboratory And Demonstration School 9 Lower Merion High School 12 Malvern Preparatory School 2 Marple Newtown High School 2 Merion Mercy Academy 2 Penncrest High School 1 Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School 1 Phoenixville Area High School 2 Radnor High School 24 Shipley School 5 Springside Chestnut Hill Academy 1 Springside School 2 St. Joseph's Preparatory School 5 Villa Maria Academy 4 West Chester East High School 6 Westtown School 4 William Penn Charter School 4

Congratulations to all the semifinalists.

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