Sarasota County, FL, September 21, 2023 – Sarasota County Schools is proud to announce that 29 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 21,000 high schools entered the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2022 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state.

Please join us in congratulating the following traditional public schools and their National Merit Semifinalists:

 
North Port High School

- Robert French
- Alexander Masucci
- Giovanni Patricio

Pine View School

- Dorian Carter
- Andrea Ciccone
- Patrick Collins
- Claire Critchett
- Tian Jiao Doherty
- Samantha Fineman
- Lana Ghamra
- Devin Gulliver
- Amy Kim
- Cyrus Kuhn
- Sonia Legare
- Andrew Lo
- Sophia Lopez
- Adriana Maiotti
- Ava Pappas
- Ella Pappas
- Abigail Pereira
- Niklas Pinto
- Tristan Rans
- Hannah Schuh
- Kody Tran
- Ethan Wang
- Kathleen Wu

Sarasota High School

- Nathaniel Gruhl
- Hayden Wilding

Venice High School

- Addyson Domian