Chandler Unified School District (CUSD) is proud to announce that 69 CUSD students have been named National Merit semifinalists.

They are among 16,000 semifinalists nationwide out of more than 1.6 million students. National Merit semifinalists represent less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors and include the highest-scoring entrants in each state. Students who qualify as semifinalists based on their performance on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®) are the only program participants who have an opportunity to advance to the finalist level and compete for National Merit Scholarships. In May, 7,500 finalists will be chosen to win the scholarship. Best of luck, CUSD students!

We wish them luck in becoming National Merit Scholars. 

Here is a list of all our students at each of their high schools. 

ACP-HIGH SCHOOL 

Mano Burla, Nico Castagna, Ian Darcy, Evan DaRosa, Drew Devine, Tylor Duong, Erin Fitzharris, Swanuja Godasi, Manu Iyer, Kenan Kao, Anshika Kedia, Talia Keen, Maggie Kim, Shanthi LeBonheur, Lillian McNeil, Ty Milleson, Arnav Mishra, Gauri Murkoth, Jacob Paton-Lloyd, Aayush Rastogi, Abhinav Saxena, Jack Xie, Xieshi Zhang

BASHA HIGH 

Sophia Bui, Alexa Midtun, Sanjana Tripuraneni, Elizabeth Vernon 

CASTEEL HIGH 

Katherine Pearson 

CHANDLER HIGH 

Allan Brown, Andrew Phillips 

HAMILTON HIGH 

Asfar Ahmad, Ian Azael Almanza, Pranav Arun, Alicia Bai, Gowri Shankar Biju, Arun Chebrolu, Sindhu Cherian-Steverson, Dane Creek, Baochan Fan, Maria Gonzalez, Akari Iwamoto, Reema Iyer, Rachel Kan, Srilaasya Karamsetty, Minjee Kim, Chaeyun Lee, Alexis Li, Cheng-Yueh Lin, Dylan Lynch, Andy Ma, Arnav Nigam, Shray Patel, Leela Raj-Sankar, Varun Raman, Dawn Shim, Daniya Siddiqui, Angelina Simon, Caleb Sirilan, Ethan Tan, Zhen Tao, Manasi Vegesna, Kenneth Wang, Nina Yu, Chloe Zhan, Grace Zhang

PERRY HIGH 

Brynn Feinstein, Jason Thorpe, Lydia Wise, Ian Zeiger