GCISD announced 20 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists and 55 additional students who earned Commended status for 2016.

We’re also looking to announce private-schooled or home-schooled semifinalists and commended students who live in the district. Please email info.gcsage@gmail.com.

Semifinalists

Colleyville Heritage High School Semifinalists

  • Holly Ahaus
  • Yuyuan Ding
  • Thomas Durkin
  • Jing Gao
  • Colby Kennedy
  • Kristen Nguyen
  • Samuel Pollack
  • Kathryn Schmidt
  • Vartika Varshney
  • Michael Wright

Grapevine High School Semifinalists

  • Emily Chwa
  • Hannah Daniel
  • Kyle Flamm
  • Grant Hill
  • Grayson Jackson
  • Lorene O’Quinn
  • Namita Saraf
  • Skyler Simon
  • Miha Valencic
  • Tine Valencic

School for the Talented and Gifted (TAG) Semifinalists

  • Gabriella Chan *
  • Sindhu Reddy *
  • Aliya Somani *
  • * attended GCISD elementary and middle schools

Commended

Colleyville Heritage High School Commended

  • William Allan
  • Destiny Alvarez
  • Austin Benvegnu
  • Elizabeth Bolaji
  • Samuel Chen
  • Brian Cho
  • Craig Christian
  • Madison Dettmer
  • Samantha Easterling
  • Gabriella Graceffo
  • Karen Guan
  • Carter Hanson
  • Collin Harris
  • William Hernandez
  • Zoe Hollinger
  • Joseph Jackson
  • Maksym Krutko
  • Oleksiy Krutko
  • Katelyn Lee
  • Courtney Ma
  • Daelon Morais
  • Christopher Nguyen
  • Hannah Nguyen
  • Rebecca Ortiz
  • David Perkins
  • Michael Prescott
  • Alena Rajwani

Grapevine High School Commended

  • Kaab Ashqeen
  • Raelene Burke
  • Madison Chao
  • Madison Cleff
  • David Coffin
  • David Dacus
  • Jennifer Foster
  • Elaina Garza
  • Alexander Gravenor
  • Katlyn Hutson
  • Haneen Khan
  • Anjali Mangrola
  • Paul McCullough
  • Clayton Mills
  • Jason Moy
  • Josie Moyer
  • Grace Nguyen
  • Olivia Nolte
  • Abigail Oswald
  • Mckenzie Packer
  • Raneem Qasim
  • Thomas Samaan
  • Michael Scott
  • Khiloni Shah
  • Jason Shumaker
  • Tyler Sporisky
  • Griffin Wade
  • Michael Woolsey

Source: GCISD, parent