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Flagler Schools Announce Flagler’s Only National Merit Scholar Semifinalist, FPC’s Magee

Posted Date: 09/15/26 (02:24 PM)
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Flagler Schools Announce Flagler’s Only 
National Merit Scholar Semifinalist, FPC’s Magee

Caption: Flagler Palm Coast High School’s Phil DeAugustino (right) awarding Jackson Magee his award for being named a Semifinalist for the National Merit Scholarship Program

(Flagler County, Florida) - Flagler Palm Coast High School announced scholar Jackson Magee as a Semifinalist in the 2027 National Merit® Scholarship Program


Magee is one of more than 16,000 Semifinalists in the 72nd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for about 6,700 National Merit Scholarships worth approximately $24 million that will be offered next spring. 

Over 1.2 million juniors in about 20,000 high schools entered the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2025 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT®), which served as an initial screen of program entrants. The nationwide pool of Semifinalists, representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, includes the highest-scoring entrants in each state. The number of Semifinalists in a state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the national total of graduating seniors.

A Semifinalist must have an outstanding academic record throughout high school, be endorsed and recommended by a high school official, write an essay, and earn SAT® or ACT® scores that confirm the student’s earlier performance on the qualifying test.

From over 16,000 Semifinalists, more than 15,000 are expected to advance to the Finalist level, and in February they will be notified of this designation. All National Merit Scholarship winners will be selected from this group of Finalists. 

Magee is in the running for a finalist spot of one of three types of National Merit Scholarships to be offered in the spring of 2027. Every Finalist will compete for one of 2,500 National Merit® $2500 Scholarships that will be awarded on a state-representational basis. National Merit Scholarship winners of 2027 will be announced this Spring. These scholarship recipients will join over 395,000 other distinguished young people who have earned the Merit Scholar title.

For more information about the competition, please visit NationalMerit.org.