Local school systems are celebrating students who have reached the semifinals of the National Merit Scholarship Program. These young men and women are among 16,000 students nationwide who have the opportunity to continue in the competition for roughly 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $30 million offered in the spring:

37 students in Madison City Schools
12 students in Huntsville City Schools
4 students in Madison County Schools
8 students at Randolph School
1 student at St. John Paul II Catholic High School

Here’s the full list.

Madison County

Homeschool

• Daniel Holder

Sparkman High School

• Caleb Ethridge
• Emma-Claire Foster
• Megan Stewart

Madison County Virtual School

• William Hall

City of Huntsville

Grissom High School

• Christopher Dye
• Jeremy Hwang
• Kyle Mince
• Alexander 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

Randolph School

• Grayson Brinkmeiere
• Matthew Crumlish
• Felipe Rodriguez Marples
• Catherine Martin
• Nancy Owens
• Lydia Slocum
• Frederick Wessel
• Eric Xing

St. John Paul II Catholic High School

• Abhishek Biswas

Homeschool

• Kaustubh Holcomb
• Hudson Oneill

City of Madison 

James Clemens High School

• Om Badhe
• Aaron Bright
• Grace Cardinale
• Adeleine Chatterton
• William Fox
• Tyler Gohlich
• Sarah Guo
• Sydney Hur
• Afolabi Idowu
• One Kim
• Yewon Lee
• Haripriya Mantraratnam
• Joshua Murphree
• Minh Phan
• Santosh Sadasivam
• Kaija Sorensen
• Grant Spivey
• Sarah Vaughan

Bob Jones High School

• Elisa 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

Madison Academy

• Malachi Elkins