These students are among 16,000 others nationwide who have the opportunity to continue in the competition for roughly 7,500 National Merit Scholarships offered in the spring and worth nearly $30 million.
Decatur City Schools
Decatur High School
- John Wesley Peters
Huntsville City Schools
Grissom High School
- Christopher Dye
- Jeremy Hwang
- Kyle Mince
- Alexandra Stofer
- Emily Xing
Huntsville High School
- John Lusk
New Century Technology High School
- Jane Brennan
- Abigail Haider
- Alexander Ivan
- David Maurer
- Mary Phillips
- Shreyas Puducheri
Madison City Schools
Bob Jones High School
Elise Baumgartner, Xueer Chen, James Clark, James Garrison, Yashas Gentela, Kailyn . Grant, Benjamin Gunasekaran, Jonathan Gunasekaran, Benjamin Kosan, Everett Krome, Maanasi Limaye, Thomas Nguyen, Diane Pham, Aubteen Pour-Biazar, Dalton Shurtz, Collin Spindle, Brandon Todd, Mike Zhang, Lillian Zhu.
- Elise P. Baumgartner
- Xueer Chen
- James M. Clark
- James D. Garrison
- Yashas Gentela
- Kailyn R. Grant
- Benjamin A. Gunasekaran
- Jonathan A. Gunasekaran
- Benjamin J. Kosan
- Everett N. Krome
- Maanasi Limaye
- Thomas M. Nguyen
- Diane D. Pham
- Aubteen Pour-Biazar
- Dalton P. Shurtz
- Collin M. Spindle
- Brandon R. Todd
- Mike R. Zhang
- Lillian X. Zhu
James Clemens High School
- Om N. Badhe
- Aaron J. Bright
- Grace A. Cardinale
- Adeleine E. Chatterton
- William D. Fox
- Tyler D. Gohlich
- Sarah Guo
- Sydney Y. Hur
- Afolabi A. Idowu
- One Kim
- Yewon Lee
- Haripriya Mantraratnam
- Joshua T. Murphree
- Minh A. Phan
- Santosh S. Sadasivam
- Kaija K. Sorensen
- Grant C. Spivey
- Sarah K. Vaughan
Private Schools
Randolph School
- Grayson Brinkmeier
- Cortner Crumlish
- Felipe Marples Rodriguez
- Cate Martin
- Kate Owens
- Lydia Slocum
- Frederick Wessel
- Eric Xing
An average of 95 percent of students who become semifinalists advance to the finalist stage, and about half of those students will win National Merit Scholarships.
