Each year the National Merit Scholarship Corporation conducts a scholarship program intended to encourage and recognize academic excellence.
National Merit Scholars
Each year the National Merit Scholarship Corporation conducts a scholarship program intended to encourage and recognize academic excellence. Students enter the program by taking the PSAT in their junior year in October. Over 22,000 high schools across the nation administer the test annually with over 1.6 million juniors taking the test.
National Merit recognizes the highest 50,000 scores across the nation; the top 16,000 are entered into the National Merit competition as semifinalist. This year, two seniors in the class of 2020 earned National Merit Semifinalist standing: Laura Parsons and Aubrey Taylor. Less than 1 percent of each state’s graduating seniors’ test scores earn this distinction.
The other 34,000 students are identified as National Merit Commended Scholars. Kenston High School has six students who are named as commended scholars. These students are typically in the top 95 percent of all students who take the test. Those students are Alexandra Akers, Weston Gaskins, Frank Hegedus, Annika Markoff, Anya Parsons and Nathan Pulling.
NHS Induction
Congratulations to Kenston High School students who were recently inducted into the National Honor Society. Each student had to demonstrate the qualities of scholarship, character, leadership and service.
They are: Hannah Andrews, Madalyn Blackford, Alexa Busby, Summer Davidson, Margaret Eibler, Hannah Fender, Brennan Fisher, Nathan Gaskins, Layla Gilbert, Todd Gruden, Lynae Hairston, Molly Hubert, Emily Jernejcic, Stephen Kale, Colin Mast, Tyler McMahan, Tyler Mesnick, Ian Montville, Nyla Morrison, Gillian Oakes, Chloe Peiffer, Casey Pleune, Dennis Princic, Nathan Spencer, Donaldo Valadez, Maxwell Vollrath, Philip Voudris, Andrew Watts, Adler Weber, Rachel Weber, Amelia Witmer-Rich and Marin Zoretich.
