Local National Merit Scholarship semifinalists

Lakeside School and Garfield High in Seattle lead all state schools in the number of semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship competition.

Thirty Lakeside and 27 Garfield students are among approximately 16,000 semifinalists nationwide. Becoming a semifinalist is the first stage of a process that will end next spring with scholarships for many of the students honored.

About 7,900 Merit Scholarship awards, worth more than $31 million, will be offered, according to the National Merit Scholarship Corp., a nonprofit organization.

The semifinalists in the Seattle area are:

Auburn

Auburn Adventist Academy: Lisa Hainey.

Thomas Jefferson High School: Esther Lee.

Bainbridge Island

Bainbridge High School: Evan Galloway, Catherine Kilbane, Colin Kuester, Ann Leach, Andrew Lovejoy, Daniel Roche, Zachary Whedbee.

Bellevue

Bellevue High School: Holly Black, Arwyn Carroll, Layla Firuz, Jason Lindgren, Keil Steinke, Gregory Thiemens, Peter Woodman.

Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart: Stephanie Dosch.

Interlake High School: Anne Jorstad, Damion Robinson, Mandeep Singh.

International School: Lauren Hoshibata.

Newport High School: Philo Davidson, Jason Hendrickson, Joy Lin, Jennifer Maurer, Monica Miller, Cara Pierson, Michael Royalty, Eric Woo, Judy Yeh, Justin Yeh, Michael Yu.

Bothell

Bothell High School: James Deville, Dimitrios Grillos, Jessica McDaniel, Jesse Smith.

Burien

John F. Kennedy Memorial High School: Elizabeth Fehrenbach.

Clyde Hill

Bellevue Christian School: Jordan Husband, Melissa Overbeck, Nathan Shiu.Covington

Kentwood High School: Jennifer Osborn.

Tahoma High School: Jessica Buchholtz, David Gill, Charlie Karasek.Des Moines

Mount Rainier High School: Rachel Corella, Alex Kramer, Gwen Spencer, Joy Thrall, Renee Ziemann.Duvall

Cedarcrest High School: Aaron Grobman.Edmonds

Edmonds-Woodway High School: Elizabeth Gibbs, Kanna Hudson, Stefanie Kim, Maia Krause, Ilia Lewis, Lynne Matsuoka, David McCloy, Casey Mulhaney.Enumclaw

Enumclaw High School: Jeremy Fisher.Federal Way

Federal Way High School: Matthew Wolhowe.

Issaquah

Issaquah High School: Ruth Burr, Patrick Carlisle, Nick Loper.

Skyline High School: Ryan Houck, Ssu-Chia Lin, Elliott Temkin.

Kenmore

Inglemoor High School: Jessica Bazick, Sheila Bijoor, Leah Boris, Jennifer Cheng, Moira Klockner, Heather Lee, Erin Mackintosh, Dakota Solbergmoen, Brianne Ullman, Kenneth Walden, Kevin Weil.Kent

Kentlake High School: Emily Barnes.

Kentridge High School: Victoria Parikh.

Kirkland

Lake Washington High School: Jonathan Hammer, Andrew Lewis, Crystal Periot, David Phippard, Lana Wilson, Alyssa Wu.Lynnwood

Home school: Kelly Spade.

Lynnwood High School: Elsa Nossum.

Mercer Island

Mercer Island High School: Jeffrey Anderson, Stephanie Curry, Talia Devens, Theodore Haley, Benjamin Jacobs, Stephen Naylor, Nathaniel Paull, Derek Schoonmaker, Ben Su, Ajay Vashee, Kristin Wiederholt.

Northwest Yeshiva High School: Shira Kaufman.

Mill Creek

Henry M. Jackson High School: Sarah Kuck.

Monroe

Monroe High School: Alexander Pagon.

Mukilteo

Kamiak High School: Sarah Reebs, Jagang Sohn.Redmond

The Overlake School: Naomi Bancroft, Elizabeth Hager, Laura Moran, Michael Sherrard.

Redmond High School: Hunter Hargraves, Jessica Neidhart, Wendy Pierce, Kevin West, Christopher Wilson, David Wolbrecht.Sammamish

Eastlake High School: Lynn Chealander, Kristen Kitagawa, Rohit Malhotra, Whitney Seiberlich.

Seattle

Ballard High School: Karl Fredrickson, Andrew Van Duzer.

Blanchet High School: Colin Dightman-Kovak, Alex Hurtado, James Pedersen.

The Bush School: Brenden Brown, David Diamondstone, Garland McQuinn.

Franklin High School: Gemma Wilson.

Garfield High School: Antares Boyle, Alexandra Bradbury, Karisa Butler-Wall, Daniel Cahir, Meghan Donohue, Geoffrey Findlay, Lionel Greaves, Ben Grossman-Kahn, Jordana Heller, Jieyang Hu, Maeve Johnston, Austin Kleber, Ian Love, Ian McGinnis, Jason Murcko, Daniel Nelson, Emily Nemens, Maxwell Newlands, Adam Percival, Diana Proctor, Elizabeth Robinson, Katherine Rorschach, Anna Roth, Sarah Sorscher, Anna Tonkonogui, Ira Woodward, Daniel Young.

Holy Names Academy: Kelly Garneski, Austine Kuder, Danielle Patneaude, Megan Peticolas, Brenna Sweeney, Teresa Valdez Klein, Amy Williams.

Ingraham High School: Christine McClane.

Lakeside School: Anita Bhansali, Jessica Blat, Elizabeth Bukey, Kelly Chen, Keunjung Cho, Kate Coxon, Rachel Curtis, Erin Dillon, Samuel Downing, Rosalind Echols, Jordan Edwards, Erica Franklin, Joshua Geilhufe, Charles Grady, Noah Jaffe, Trevor Jensen, Edward Kim, Sung Kim, Denise Leung, Ben McGreevy, Matthew Miller, Kathleen Paul, Elizabeth Ridgeway, David Smart, Kevin Smith, Joshua Stillman, Brian Suchland, Sarah Sullivan, Thomas Wallach, Thomas Wilson.

The Northwest School: Jacob Brogan, Elizabeth Collier, Dylan Meconis, Emmett Shear.

O'Dea High School: Thomas Ortman.

Roosevelt High School: Sarah Emerson, Win Martin.

Sealth High School: Alice Kim.

Seattle Academy: Rebecca Ainsworth-Reed.

Seattle Preparatory School: Nolan Ericson, Nicolas Flacco, Erin Gleason, Claire Hirschmann, Allen Huang.

Transition School for Early Entrance Program: Harr Chen, Eugene Hwang, Loren Merritt, Jiachen Tao, Justine Young.

University Preparatory Academy: Warren Caldwell, Nathaniel Kan.

Shoreline

Kings High School: Ben Patzwald.

Shorewood High School: Alexander Ho, Erica Knight, Emily O'Neill.

Snohomish

Snohomish High School: Clara Thelen.Snoqualmie

Mount Si High School: Erica Peterson.Stanwood

Stanwood High School: Alexander Thoreen.Vashon

Vashon Island High School: Owen Farcy.

Woodinville

Woodinville High School: Laurel Gordon, Mary Hawkins, Josef Stute.