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Clarke Student Honored by National Achievement Scholarship Program

Clarke High School senior Jerry Holloway has been named an Outstanding Participant in the 2015 National Achievement Scholarship Program.

W. T. Clarke High School senior Jerry Holloway has been named an Outstanding Participant in the 2015 National Achievement Scholarship Program.

He is among the top 3 percent of approximately 160,000 Black Americans who entered in the scholarship program when he took the 2013 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.

The National Achievement Scholarship Program was initiated in 1964 specifically to honor academically promising Black American high school students. A roster of the selected 3,100 Outstanding Participants was referred to approximately 1,500 colleges and universities throughout the nation.

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