More than 40 Dripping Springs High School juniors and seniors have earned academic honors from the College Board National Recognition Program for their performance on the PSAT/NMSQT®, PSAT™ 10, and/or AP® Exams.
A majority of DSHS students earned National Rural and Small Town Recognition, while students also received the National African American Recognition, the National First-Generation Recognition, the National Hispanic Recognition and the National Indigenous Recognition. Students can qualify for multiple recognition programs.
Eligible students must meet the following criteria to qualify:
Earn a GPA of B+ (equal to at least 3.3 or 87%-89%) or higher.
PSAT/NMSQT or PSAT 10 assessment scores that are within the top 10% of assessment takers in each state for each award program or earned a score of 3 or higher on 2 or more AP Exams by the end of 10th grade.
Attend school in a rural area or small town, or identify as African American/Black, Hispanic American/Latino, Indigenous/Native American, or a first-generation college student.
National African American Recognition
Kalle Thomas
National First-Generation Recognition
Ryan Tingle
Sofia Vences
National Hispanic Recognition
Kaden Beard
Vegas Borrelli
Allison Gorchs
Brooke Holmes
Jackson McClure
Alexa Miyamoto
Sloan Rodriguez
Noah Samaniego
Elijah Slater
Sofia Vences
Kamiily Visser
National Indigenous Recognition
Macy Bargen
Quinn Foley
National Rural and Small Town Recognition
David Adair
Grace Alexander
Kaden Beard
Vegas Borrelli
Kirby Brandon
Dayton Daniel
Kolby Dennison
Isabel Derouen
Hadden Evans
Capri Fry
Allison Gorchs
Elodie Griffin
Akshad Jha
Kyle Kelly
Elliott Kling
Abir Kulkarni
James Lamb
Crispin Lovelace
Fletcher Lovelace
Alexa Miyamoto
Stone Patterson
Annie Reale
Sloan Rodriguez
Cooper Rummel
Sahitya Sajjala
Eben Sebastian
Madeleine Sheppard
Elijah Slater
Kylie Spence
Sanvi Surapaneni
Kalle Thomas
Deval Vazir
Kamiily Visser
Marshall Wyler