Albuquerque Public Schools
32 APS Seniors Named National Merit Semifinalists
Designation recognizes nation's top academic performers.
Thirty-two Albuquerque Public Schools high school seniors have been named semifinalists in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program.
The designation goes to the students who received the highest scores on the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Fewer than one percent of U.S. high school seniors qualify as semifinalists.
La Cueva High has 18 semifinalists, more than any other New Mexico high school.
More than 1.3 million juniors in about 21,000 high schools took the PSAT in 2023. Of those, about 16,000 were named semifinalists and are eligible to compete for nearly $26 million in National Merit Scholarships.
The 2025 APS Semifinalists
Albuquerque High School
Niels T. Schmidt
Cibola High School
Katie Tran
Victoria L. Woodzell
Early College Academy
Samuel Flores
Maizy Galasso
Natalie Galasso
Sarah Martinez
Daniel Polder
Eldorado High School
Alisa Quach
Claire Staiger
Haley Wheeler
La Cueva High School
Jacob T. Chodorow
Angus R. Gallegos
Maia Gregson
Elena Grosiak
Joaquin Headley
Clay H. Hsieh
Isaac Johnson
Silas Jones
Kyuryeon Kim
Hadwyn Link
Mateo R. Lujan
Ryan Nguyen
Amandeep Prasankumar
Lucas M. Riley
Kate Schoenwald
Christabel Thiel-Hadjilambrinos
Andi Xu
Rella W. Yarrington
nex+Gen Academy Magnet High School
Ryan P. Richardson
Sandia High School
Eli Crowley
Dustin Dole