Schools
6 District 191 Seniors Named National Merit Commended Students
The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District described the students as "academically-talented scholars."
The Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District has announced that six Burnsville High School seniors were named National Merit Commended Students.
Students who receive this recognition received excellent scores on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Less than 3.5 percent of the students how take the test are recognized as Commended Students, according to a news release from the District 191.
The students are: Janna Bruesehoff, Molly Calhoon, Taylor Ewing, Maxwell Johnson, Maggie Kaplan and Bonssa Teizazu.
Teizazu has also been named a semifinalist in the Outstanding Participants in the National Achievement Scholarship Program. He scored in the top three precent of the 160,000 African American students who took the Preliminary SAT/
National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Finalists for the program will be announced in April 2014.
Correction: A previous version of this story had the incorrect name of one of the students due to error in district press release.
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