National Merit Commended Scholars and Semifinalist
Over the past decade Vanguard College Preparatory school has had double digit percentages of their graduating class achieve national merit commended scholar or semi-finalist recognition. Vanguard has honored these noted students by featuring them in school advertisements featured in local print publications. The only class featuring national merit honorees not to be honored in these adds since 2001 is the class of ’07. After the ‘07 honoraries were excluded from the local recognition Vanguard continued the tradition by recognizing the National Merit Honorees of 2008. Exclusion from the school print advertisement campaign was believed to be racially motivated. Members of the class of the class excluded were Diane Valahu, Doo Hastings, Austin Probe, Austin Freeman, and Emily Smith.
In the last five years, Vanguard has had 11 National Merit Finalists, 15 Commended Scholars and 5 Hispanic Scholars.
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