• Plano ISD Congratulates Our 2025 National Merit Semifinalists

    Plano ISD is proud to announce that 89 students have been named Semifinalists in the prestigious 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program. This distinguished honor places these students among the top academic performers in the nation, recognizing their exceptional achievements on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®).

    These academically talented high school seniors now have the opportunity to advance in the competition for nearly 6,870 National Merit Scholarships worth a combined $26 million, to be awarded next spring. Approximately 95% of Semifinalists are expected to advance to Finalist status, with about half of those earning the title of National Merit Scholar.

    Semifinalists were selected from a pool of over 1.3 million juniors across approximately 21,000 high schools nationwide. Representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, these students achieved the highest scores in the state. To qualify as Finalists, Semifinalists must submit a comprehensive scholarship application highlighting their academic record, leadership experience, participation in school and community activities, employment, and honors and awards received. Additionally, students must earn SAT® or ACT® scores that confirm their qualifying test performance.


    • Everett Allen, Plano Senior High School
    • Vedha R. Almeti, Plano East Senior High School
    • Dev Arora, Plano West Senior High School
    • Keon Attarha, Plano West Senior High School
    • Aryan Bangad, Plano East Senior High School
    • Erin Q. Beall, Plano East Senior High School
    • Joshua T. Bellegante, Plano East Senior High School
    • Akshay Bhaskar, Plano West Senior High School
    • Anjali Bhattacharya, Plano West Senior High School
    • Prisha P. Bhat, Plano East Senior High School
    • Piyush Budagavi, Plano West Senior High School
    • Eshaan Chachad, Plano West Senior High School
    • Dekan Chan, Plano West Senior High School
    • Alexander Chen, Plano West Senior High School
    • Simai Chen, Plano West Senior High School
    • Muhsin A. Chowdhury, Plano East Senior High School
    • Joelle Chung, Plano West Senior High School
    • Ankur Dabholkar, Plano Senior High School
    • Kelly Dang, Plano Senior High School
    • Evelyn Ding, Plano West Senior High School
    • Aaron T. Foo, Plano East Senior High School
    • Teagan Gao, Plano West Senior High School
    • Daniel Glabai, Plano West Senior High School
    • Sophia K. Guerra, Plano East Senior High School
    • Anushka Gupta, Plano West Senior High School
    • Raghav Gupta, Plano West Senior High School
    • Ethan Haruvy, Plano West Senior High School
    • Afnan Hasan, Plano West Senior High School
    • Isabel M. Heen, Plano East Senior High School
    • Allison B. Heston, Plano East Senior High School
    • Winnie Hu, Plano West Senior High School
    • Afseen Iqbal, Plano East Senior High School
    • Aniya Jain, Plano East Senior High School
    • Alika Josh, Plano West Senior High School
    • Shivaansh Kala, Plano West Senior High School
    • Rishi Kalyandurg, Plano West Senior High School
    • Tanooj K. Kanike, Plano East Senior High School
    • Anshul Khandekar, Plano West Senior High School
    • Landon A. Hart, Academy High School
    • Landon Lau, Plano West Senior High School
    • Annie Li, Plano West Senior High School
    • Ava Li, Plano West Senior High School
    • Jiahe Liu, Plano West Senior High School
    • Justin Liu, Plano West Senior High School
    • Klara Ludwig, Plano West Senior High School
    • Serene A. Luo, Plano East Senior High School
    • Divya Madabusi, Plano West Senior High School
    • Ridwan Mahmood, Plano West Senior High School
    • Evette L. Manfredi, Plano East Senior High School
    • Rehaana Marian, Plano Senior High School
    • Asha Mavankal, Plano West Senior High School
    • Sai Mavankal, Plano West Senior High School
    • Jack McGlamery, Plano West Senior High School
    • Bhavini Nair, Plano West Senior High School
    • Nathan K. Nalla, Plano East Senior High School
    • Sisir R. Nallamilli, Plano East Senior High School
    • Shivani Nathan, Plano West Senior High School
    • Samuel M. Ngo, Plano East Senior High School
    • Rohan V. Palivela, Plano East Senior High School
    • Arianna Lauren Pascual, Plano East Senior High School
    • Siri V. Peddinti, Plano East Senior High School
    • Calleigh J. Platt, Plano East Senior High School
    • Austin Qian, Plano Senior High School
    • Nikhil Raghu, Plano East Senior High School
    • Arjun Ramakanth, Plano West Senior High School
    • Devika Ramakrishna, Plano East Senior High School
    • Tristan L. Ramon, Plano East Senior High School
    • Tess Rippel, Plano Senior High School
    • Kriya R. Shan, Plano East Senior High School
    • Mallika Subramanian, Plano Senior High School
    • Lixing Sun, Plano West Senior High School
    • Thomas Tang, Plano Senior High School
    • Daniel Tauhert, Plano West Senior High School
    • Joshua Thomas, Plano West Senior High School
    • Vera Tsai, Plano Senior High School
    • Krishnan Variyam, Plano Senior High School
    • Akash Viswam, Plano West Senior High School
    • Henry T. Vo, Plano East Senior High School
    • William Xie, Plano West Senior High School
    • Zihan Xu, Plano West Senior High School
    • Om Yadav, Plano West Senior High School
    • Calla R. Yasui, Plano East Senior High School
    • Darcy Yin, Plano West Senior High School
    • Kaitlyn Yoder, Plano Senior High School
    • Peter Yoon, Plano West Senior High School
    • Andrew Yu, Plano West Senior High School
    • Abraham Zhang, Plano West Senior High School
    • Jiaqi “Jerry” Zhang, Plano West Senior High School
    • Junyang Zheng, Plano West Senior High School