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Rockwood Students Named Candidates for 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program

Rockwood Students Named Candidates for 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program

A total of nine students representing all four Rockwood School District high schools have been named candidates for the 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program.

Each year, around 4,000 students nationally are named candidates for this program from the pool of more than 3 million high school seniors. In the spring, up to 161 students from this group will be named as Presidential Scholars, one of the nation's highest honors for high school students. This year, Rockwood contributes nine of the 111 candidates from the state of Missouri.

The U.S. Presidential Scholars Program was established in 1964 to recognize and honor some of our nation's most distinguished graduating high school seniors.

Students have the opportunity to become Presidential Scholars based on three paths of accomplishment. The majority of the scholars are selected on the basis of broad academic achievement, while other students are selected on the basis of their academic and artistic scholarship in the visual arts, the performing arts or creative writing and on the basis of their outstanding scholarship and accomplishment in career and technical education fields. Selection for candidates in the academic achievement path is, for the most part, made based on SAT and ACT scores.

Congratulations to these outstanding Rockwood students!

  • Clara Bass, Lafayette High
  • Jessica Guan, Lafayette
  • Tejus Krishnan, Rockwood Summit High
  • Simone Marta, Lafayette
  • Caleb Mitchell, Marquette High
  • Abhiram Permareddy, Marquette
  • Atharva Shinde, Marquette
  • Aryan Valsa Pradeep, Marquette
  • Nolan Wilson, Eureka High

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Nearly 230 nominations were submitted with stories highlighting excellence of character, leadership, performance, and extraordinary service to Rockwood. Teachers, principals, nurses, secretaries, custodians, parent volunteers and community members cover just some of the people who were nominated.​