Shawnee High School is proud to announce Kendra Langhals and William Owen were named National Merit Scholar Semifinalists by the National Merit Scholar Corporation (NMSC®).
“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. These academically talented high school seniors 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.” - National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC®)