Twenty Lake Washington School District students have been selected as finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Competition. Six of those students are from Kirkland schools.

As finalists, these students are now qualified to receive National Merit Scholarships, including $2500 awards, corporate-sponsored scholarships or college-sponsored scholarships. About 15,000 students nationally have been named finalists in this competition.

The following students have advanced to finalist status in the National Merit Scholarship Program:

• Eastlake High School: Blake Crinklaw

• Juanita High School: Audrey Hsu; Sam Schwabacher; Luke Sironski-White

• Lake Washington High School: Jake Nash; Suejean Hwangpo; Peter Dolan

• Redmond High School: Maya Balakrishnan; Tara Balakrishnan; Rebecca Ballantyne; Michael Gilroy; Benjamin Keller; Jihoon Lee; Nolan Miller; Ananya Murali; Preetum Nakkiran; Kevin Parker; Dhaaruni Sreenivas; Sophia Xu; Edward Zhang