Amarillo ISD Celebrates National Merit Finalist

Posted Date: 02/18/2025

February 17, 2025 – Amarillo High School senior Jason Vo has been named a 2025 National Merit Finalist and advances in the scholarship competition.

Earning the title of National Merit Finalist places a student among the top score earners in the country on the PSAT test, representing less than one percent of graduating seniors. Jason will continue in the competition for some 6,870 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $26 million that will be offered in the coming months. 

Additionally, six AISD senior students earned 2025 National Merit Scholarship Commended honors. AISD is the only area school system to consistently produce National Merit Scholars, year after year. More than 100 AISD students have earned a National Merit scholar designation in the last ten years.

2025 National Merit Finalist:

Amarillo High School

• Jason Vo
   

2025 National Merit Commended Scholars:

Amarillo High School

• Lance Dykhouse

• Elizabeth Griffin

• Elizabeth Lewis

• Nathanael Smith

• Peyton Thompson

Tascosa High School

• Erik Foster

High school juniors entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2024 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants.