2024 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists and Commended Students
The National Merit Scholarship Program is an annual academic competition for recognition and college undergraduate scholarships. The program champions the nation's most valuable resource: highly motivated and intellectually gifted young people.
Over 1.5 million students in approximately 21,000 high schools enter the National Merit Scholarship program each year by taking the PSAT. Fifty thousand students qualify for program recognition.
Approximately 34,000 of those 50,000 high scores are named Commended Students. The 2024 National Merit Scholarship Competition Commended Students from Central Catholic are Tate Helms, '24, and Jack Kaczmarski, '24.
The remaining 16,000 of those 50,000 high scores, representing less than 1% of the nation's graduating seniors, qualify as Semifinalists in the annual National Merit Scholarship Program. We honor the 2024 National Merit Scholarship Competition Semifinalists from Central Catholic, John Beeson, '24, and James Sweeney, '24.
