Newton High School has a 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program winner. Anna DeVries is among the first group of winners in the 70th Annual National Merit Scholarship Program. She’s one of approximately 830 high school seniors awarded a corporate-sponsored scholarship award, financed by 124 corporations, company foundations, and other organizations. DeVries was selected for the National Merit Nationwide Foundation Scholarship. Nationwide Foundation was incorporated as a nonprofit charitable foundation in 1959 to support exclusively religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational activities and projects.
Anna and more than 1.3 million high school juniors entered the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2023 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Qualifying Test. The winners are judged to have the strongest combination of academic skills and achievements, extracurricular accomplishments, and potential success in rigorous college studies.
