11 Zumwalt seniors named National Merit Semifinalists

Congratulations to Fort Zumwalt School District’s 2021 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists. These 11 Fort Zumwalt seniors are among the top scorers on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) taken by more than 1 million high school juniors at more than 22,000 high schools across the nation. The semifinalists represent less than 1 percent of high school students and qualify to continue in the competition. Next spring, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation will award about $35 million to roughly 8,000 graduating high school seniors. 

FZ National Merit Semi-Finalists are West High’s Ella Baetje, Saanvi Gowda, Maxwell Hardcastle, Adam Mulvey, Claire Myers and Surya Sompalli; South High’s Twisha Nadella, Kaelen Raible and Nicholas Stovall; North High’s Spencer Steinmeyer; and East High’s Thomas Bambrick.