Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Fayette County Public Schools congratulates its 26 semifinalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. They are among some 16,000 academically talented high school seniors competing for awards worth more than $34 million.

While FCPS accounts for less than 6 percent of the student population in Kentucky, the district has 13 percent of the state’s semifinalists. 

Bryan Station High School

• Allison Wood

Henry Clay High School

• Mohamed Agoub, Nathan Arnold, Rachel Geil, Mackenzie Jones, Jenny Lee, Patrick Lutz and Emily Stromberg

Lafayette High School

• Elizabeth Bollinger, Aneesha Carter and Robert Cass

Paul Laurence Dunbar High School

• Erin Anderson, Vanya Bistrekova, Grant Boggess, Jessica Geddes, Idrees Kahloon, Alexander Petros, Melissa Stravitz, Adarsh Subbaswamy, Maria Wu, Qi Yu and Christina Zhang

Tates Creek High School

• Charlotte Eckmann, Emily Griggs, James Gullo and Johnson Lam

About 90 percent of semifinalists are expected to advance in February, and more than half of those students will win scholarships underwritten by the National Merit Scholarship Corp., business organizations and universities. The results will be announced in four waves from April to July.

For more information, visit www.nationalmerit.org/.

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