AHS's 2026 National Merit Semifinalists

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation has notified Avon High School Prinicpal Matt Shockley that AHS has five students who are honored as National Merit Semifinalists.

AHS students Madi Gullion, Maya Kozenski, Macy Lingle, Bella Ryan, and Kaitlyn Yenerich are among the relatively small number of US high school seniors who have earned this distinction.

According the the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, this is a rare and prestigious honor:

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 Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state's percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

Congratulations, Kaitlyn, Maya, Bella, Macy, and Madi, for earning this outstanding honor!