The National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently announced Community School seniors Sofia Lodato and Lucy More as National Merit Scholarship Commended

Students in the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Commended Students are recognized for the exceptional academic promise demonstrated by their outstanding performance on the qualifying test.

Lodato and More are among about 34,000 Commended Students in the 63rd Annual National Merit Scholarship Program, recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Commended Students placed among the 50,000 scorers of more than 1.6 million students

who entered the 2018 competition based on their results in the 2016 Preliminary SAT/National

Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT.

“I am extremely proud of Sofia and Lucy for being named National Merit Scholarship Commended Students,” said Head of School Ben Pettit. “More importantly, I want to thank them both for their respective leadership, dedication in the classroom, remarkable drive, insatiable curiosity, and passion for the arts, all of which make them exceptional students.They are wonderful contributors to our school community and culture.”