Schools
Cherokee Students are National Achievement Semi-Finalists
One student each from Woodstock, River Ridge, Sequoyah and Cherokee high schools, respectively, were named semi-finalists.
Four seniors with the Cherokee County School District have been 2014 named semi-finalists in the National Achievement Scholarship Program.
Those seniors — Omari Reeves-Miller of River Ridge High School, Briana A. Francois of Woodstock High School, Brandon Best of Cherokee High School and Michael Ajose of Sequoyah High School — will now compete to be named finalists.
The four students were among 1,600 African-American students across the country who were named semifinalists in the initiative, which is conducted by National Merit Scholarship Corporation.
Students receive the designation based upon outstanding performance on the 2012 PSAT. These students will now compete for 800 Achievement Scholarships worth more than $2.5 million.
Semi-finalists must now meet several requirements to be named finalists. Roughly 80 percent of semi-finalists are expected to nab finalist standing, and more than half of the finalists will win an Achievement Scholarship award.
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