Sarasota County Schools is proud to announce that 33 of its students have been named National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
The National Merit Scholarship Program is an academic competition for recognition and college scholarships that began in 1955. Per the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, over 1.3 million juniors in about 20,000 high schools entered the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2024 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants.
The nationwide pool of National Merit Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of National Merit Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.
Please join us in congratulating the following traditional public schools and their National Merit Semifinalists:
North Port High School
Zoeyanna Anderson
Mackenzie Smith
Pine View School
Jeffrey Anderson
Natasha Antoniuk
Ankur Bishayee
Benjamin Butakow
Carly Cabrera
Logan D'Amato
Rohan Dash
Prabhav Govindu
Matthew Gries
Gabriel Harris
Niranjana Jayendran
Elizabeth Khodzhaieva
Devdaan Lobo
Jacob Maggard
Sankalp Manjesh
Mirai Mehta
Kira Molnar
Esther Nisberg
Jocelyn Rans
Cole Reuter
Jaime Sweiderk
Kinley Thompson
Krishav Yerra
Sophia Zhang
Riverview High School
Victoria Jendrysik
Mason Snider
Katelyn Uhran
Sarasota High School
Sarah Gutierrez
Michael Stahl
Venice High School
Jack Lucido
Mia Myburgh