KCS Students Named National Merit Semifinalists

Knox County Schools is proud to celebrate 26 students named Semifinalists in the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program. Students from Farragut High, West High, Bearden High, and L&N STEM Academy earned this prestigious recognition, placing them among the highest-scoring entrants in Tennessee. 

Congratulations to these outstanding students on this remarkable achievement!

Bearden High
Aidan J. Johnson

Farragut High
Karuna Chen
Evan Conger
Cayden Crouchet
Diana Gao
Malcolm Gao
Ella Huang
Ari Kim
Tiffany Lian
Arman Oguz
Dinh Phan
Samuel Pu
Roshan Ramanan
Uma Seal
Uday Sujithkumar
Harrison Toon
Rickie Wu
Ella Ye
Caroline Zhao

L&N STEM Academy
Benjamin Green
Dominick Pelaia
Stewart Wang

West High
Elsa Anderson
Stella DeLuca
Sebastian van Nes
Marco Vasko-Klima