Full List Released: One Minnesota High School Topped Every Other For National Merit Semifinalists

MINNESOTA — More than 270 students across Minnesota have been named Semifinalists in the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced Wednesday.

Minnetonka High School led every school in the state with 32 Semifinalists, well ahead of Wayzata High School's 20 and Edina High School's 13.

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Mounds View High School, Blake School, Breck School and Mayo High School were tied for the next spot with 11 each.

The Minnesota students are among more than 16,000 Semifinalists nationwide, representing less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors, according to NMSC.

Semifinalists are the highest-scoring entrants in each state, drawn from a pool of more than 1.2 million juniors who took the 2025 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

To advance to Finalist standing, students must complete a detailed scholarship application, be endorsed by a high school official, write an essay and confirm their qualifying test scores with SAT or ACT results. NMSC expects about 95 percent of Semifinalists to reach Finalist status, and roughly half of those Finalists will go on to win a National Merit Scholarship. The 2027 competition will award about 6,700 scholarships worth approximately $24 million next spring.

Here is the full list of Minnesota Semifinalists by city and school.

ALEXANDRIA

Alexandria Area High School
Thomas Dutcher
Alex Rodriguez

APPLE VALLEY

Eastview High School
Pranya Duvvuru
Nathanael Lees
Abigail Tranter

ARDEN HILLS

Homeschool/Online School
Elias Kimbell

Mounds View High School
Jason Chang
William Diao
Walter Gibbens
Willow Henry
Emily Johnson
Alice Lee
Elizabeth Nelson
Divyansh Ramisetty
John Stepnowski
Austin Wang
Brayden Ye

AUSTIN

Austin High School
Ruby Liu

BLAINE

Blaine High School
Taison Scofield

BLOOMINGTON

John F. Kennedy High School
Emma Jacobson-Dunlop
Sidney Zuchowski

BYRON

Byron High School
Seetaram Mugu

CHAMPLIN

Champlin Park High School
Henry Finke

CHANHASSEN

Chanhassen High School
Honor Dapp

CHASKA

Chaska High School
Braeden Johnson

Southwest Christian High School
Judah Berry
Cole Bjerke
Samuel Eagen
Sierra Orvik
Craig Thomas

CLOQUET

Cloquet High School
Patrick Radosevich

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS

Columbia Heights High School
Loren Baptist

COON RAPIDS

Coon Rapids High School Center for Biomedical Sciences and Engineering
Nahum Yilma

DULUTH

Denfeld High School
Piper Hamilton

Duluth East High School
Claire Long
Zachary Wu

EAGAN

Eagan High School
Tyler Haffely
Ethan Mann
Maya Roth
Gabriel Rubin
Jonathan Rubin
Gavin Yang
Raymond Zhao

Trinity School at River Ridge
Daniel Gregory
Christopher King
John Matos

EDEN PRAIRIE

Agape Christi Academy
Olivia Loe

Eden Prairie High School
Sankalp Agrawal
Amara Ahmed
Yash Gupta
William Kukla
Allison LaMothe
Aditya Reddy Madireddy
Ayobami Olofinboba
Anish Peri
Eliza Tippets
Bradley Wilkings

EDINA

Edina High School
Alexander Allocco
Claire Daman
Cody Hurwitz
Asher Jani
Leanore Just
Ella Komanecki
Samuel Krauss
Rakshitha Malli Meganathan
Sonia Mo
Owen O'Neill
Henry Stracke
Jonathan Wang
Jonathan Wu

FARIBAULT

Shattuck-St. Mary's School
Seungwan Han

FERGUS FALLS

Kennedy Secondary School
Trygvie Ronnevik

FOREST LAKE

Forest Lake High School
Evan Marsh

FORESTON

Faith Christian School
Wesley Johnson

GOLDEN VALLEY

Breck School
Alena Boeckermann
Addison Detor
Elsa Eugster
Anna Harrington
Eileen Mortimer
Anna Ribciuc
Sara Rosenman
Michael Scherer
Alexis Snyder
Misa So
Adelaide Stern

LAKEVILLE

Lakeville North High School
Ethan Sinclair

Lakeville South High School
Lincoln Benson
Trey Ebersole
Kayla Gronseth

LONG LAKE

Orono High School
Ethan Weiss

MAHTOMEDI

Mahtomedi High School
Charles DeHaan

MANKATO

Mankato East High School
Kamryn Hoffman

Mankato West High School
Leila Pratt

MAPLE GROVE

Maple Grove High School
Owen Breitenfeldt

Parnassus Preparatory School
Parker Anderson

MAPLEWOOD

Hill-Murray School
Thomas Ignagni

MARSHALL

Marshall High School
Ian Beyer
Xavier Rabaey

MENDOTA HEIGHTS

St. Thomas Academy
Gabriel Frommelt

Two Rivers High School
Adam Hauth
Grant Jedlicka

MINNEAPOLIS

Blake School - Northrup Campus
Hazel Alexander
Minha Ali
Drew Cheng
Charles Dean
Alexander Du
Oliver Engel
Gregory Jones
Ania Lazarewicz
Mark Meringolo
Spencer Schmidt
David Webster

De La Salle High School
Lillian Eldred

Thomas Jefferson High School
Brynne DeBrule
Justin Kramer
Mia Quynh Nguyen
Zachary Pikus

Roosevelt High School
Joseph Prem
Emmett Wachter

South High School
Phoebe Martinson

Southwest High School
Kian Beeck
Ellen Davis

St. Anthony Village High School
Anna Temple

Washburn High School
Linus Honer
Thomas McVay

MINNETONKA

Eagle Ridge Academy
William Croson
Leonardo Gullekson
Matthew Mou

Hopkins High School
Grant Hirshman
Leland Jarta
Benjamin Mulfinger
Joanna Zocchi

Minnetonka High School
Andre Anderson-Barrera
Anja Arora
Anne Buffington
Larah Colon-Ortiz
Aydan Duong
Megan Eisenmann
Beau Elder
Cole Frick
Audrey Geht
Lydia Houck
Mira Jayant
Anjali Jayanti
Stella Kelliher
Adam Klobe
Mason Kuyper
Van Le
Jacob Lee
Allison Lei
Michael Luo
Lucas Malheiros
Emilio Moreno
Ananda Nhouyvanisvong
Lucia Ruhoff
Erin Sefton
Mila Sloan
Erik Stanerson
Gus Sullivan
Nolan Sullivan
Daniel Trifonov
Finnegan Van Hee
Zander Volby Flor
Jocelyn Wang

NEW BRIGHTON

Irondale High School
Charles Anderson
Margaret Anderson
Mason Lilley

OWATONNA

Owatonna High School
Asher Penn

PLAINVIEW

Plainview-Elgin-Millville High School
Aaron Matiash

PLYMOUTH

Providence Academy
Roman Doboszenski
Amory Kaufman
Jameson Meiser

Robbinsdale Armstrong High School
Evelyn Johnson

Wayzata High School
Arabella Asrani
Logan Cassie
Louis Dang
William Feng
Rohan Gajendhar
Henry Horton
Ishan Iska
Pavan Kartik
Owen Kaus
Gabrielle Lewis
Karan Narang
Eshaan Parnerkar
Luke Schirack
Yashvi Singh
Colin Sullivan
Raymond Sun
Thomas Williams
Tianqi Yu
Allison Zhang
Joy Zhou

ROCHESTER

Century High School
Kai Hill
Arden Peng
Yash Saoji
William Taunton
Dylan Miguel Trinidad
Julia Wang
Elizabeth Zhu

John Marshall High School
Wendy Marielle Brandt

Mayo High School
Malea Diehn
Sarah Dingli
Rathan Duggirala
Hossam Elkhatib
Ethan Fang
Celine Herrmann
William Leasure
Lillian Letourneaut
Reva Patel
Brijen Tollefson
Mary Turay

Schaeffer Academy
Ezra Hake

ROSEMOUNT

Homeschool/Online School
Burak Oguz

Rosemount High School
Giacomo Driessen
Nicholas Garnsworthy
Benjamin Huss
Wyatt Miller
Lincoln Preusse

ROSEVILLE

Homeschool/Online School
Isaac Ekern

Roseville Area High School
Martijn Krook-Magnuson
Ethan Lim

SARTELL

Homeschool/Online School
Levi Gould

Sartell High School
Henry Johnson

SHAKOPEE

Shakopee High School
Madeline Bohn
Dhruva Chakravarthula
Jason Pilli

SPRING LAKE PARK

Spring Lake Park High School
Cooper Herzog

ST. LOUIS PARK

Benilde-St. Margaret's School
Brodrick Sellers

St. Louis Park High School
Eliza Levitan

ST. PAUL

Central High School
Harun Mohamed
Cameron Quirk
Charlotte Washington
Dylan Wohlhueter

Highland Park High School
Maxwell Andresen

Mounds Park Academy
Hannabella Li
Siddhardha Sastry

Nova Classical Academy
Archer DeHoskins
Luke Fadden
Natalie Heidemann
Finn Penniman

St. Agnes High School
Lucy Kirkland

St. Paul Academy and Summit School
Zachary Berchenko
Aldegundo Brenneman
Jeremiah Chi
Caden Deardurff
Gavin Leuthold
Asha Peckosh
Orly Resnick-Schwarcz
Isaak Senaratna
Edward Sofen

STILLWATER

St. Croix Preparatory Academy
Linden Taylor

Stillwater Area High School
William Foote
Qianyi Li
Mia Otsuka
Cecily Weston

WACONIA

Waconia High School
Jacob Senne
Mia Tiller

WEST ST. PAUL

St. Croix Lutheran Academy
Khac Cao
Cora Smith

WHITE BEAR LAKE

White Bear Lake Area High School - South Campus
James Colby
Haaken Lein

WOODBURY

East Ridge High School
Muneeb Chaudhry
Daniel Chen
Tashvi Dilip
Rohan Kuruvila
Aita Kyraha
Temitayo Sennowo
Jason Smith
Alyssa Wang

Math and Science Academy
Edward Lee

Woodbury High School
Lucas Dong
Eunseo Kim
Jeyi Park