Bellingham Public Schools has three semifinalists and nine commended students in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Competition. To qualify for the competition, students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) during the 2023-24 school year.
Sehome High School students Fengyou Liu, Oliver Resnick and Jina Thompson qualified as semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program in fall 2024. Scholarship finalists will be named in winter 2025. .
National Merit commended students in BPS include Bellingham High School鈥檚 Rylan Neem; Sehome High School鈥檚 Oscar Fegley, Nicolas Gargano, Noah Hawkins, Jae-Yoon Lee, Charles Love and Jessa Parfet; and Squalicum High School’s Nell Cherry and Oliver Parsons.聽Commended students are among the top 50,000 high scorers but do not continue in the National Merit competition. They received a letter of commendation for outstanding academics.