Eight students in the Jefferson Parish Public School System have been named National Merit Finalists in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program. Representing JPPSS are six students from Haynes Academy and two from Patrick F. Taylor Science and Technology Academy.
Haynes Academy
Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy
These high school seniors have the opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth about $33 million offered in the spring. About 1.6 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which served as an initial screen of program entrants.