Students from nine CMS high schools are among the more than 16,000 semifinalists in the 71st annual National Merit® Scholarship Program. They will have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 6,930 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered next spring. Those students are:

• Ardrey Kell High | Shubh Agarwal, Sofia Aguila Lopez, Shardul Arya, Ishanee Bhangay, Arya Dave, Cooper Duffy, Nethra Gopalakrishnan, Rohan Hansalia, Peter Karamanov, Jahnavi Kari, Varune Kulasingam, Aarnav Kumar, Nikhil Kumar, Avah Lin, Joseph Liu, Maryn Medina, Jonas PakLin, Sung Yeon Park, Krish Ramaraj, Sanat Rao, Lydia Shen, Ray Sun, Ray Tan, Sameeya Vasan, Lucas Yuan, Sophie Zhang
• Ballantyne Ridge High | Saankhya Kotha
• David W. Butler High | Bodhi Lam
• East Mecklenburg High | Reid Banerjee, Carl LeGrone, Simon Wilson
• Myers Park High | Everett Benchich, Elizabeth Hammers, Sienna Heinrich, Caroline Hood, Lillian Mangan, Charlotte Manning, Thomas Morrow, Lucas Nazemzadeh, Eve Norton, Alexa Reynolds, Eleanor Rust, Rachel Stitt, Elizabeth Watson, Cameron Williams
• North Mecklenburg High | Prathyek Poojary
• Palisades High | Dallin Goodrich
• Providence High | Tokugen Drake, Nitya Garg, Lawrence He, Erika Holden, Chase Khanolkar, Brayden Magids, Hansini Narayanan, Matthew Perrone, Jackson Powell, Jason Yan
• William Amos Hough High | John Roeder