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Local student honored

Local student honored

Merritt Hanley, a fifth-grader at Mill Creek Elementary School, is one of nearly 1,100 fifth-through-eighth-grade students from around the state who were honored for outstanding verbal and/or math abilities by the University of Washington at a ceremony May 18.

The students' academic achievements were discovered through the Washington Search for Young Scholars. To be eligible, fifth- and sixth-grade students scored in the top 3 percent in reading/verbal or math sections on a standardized aptitude test.

High scores on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) also qualified the students. Seventh- and eighth-graders were required to take either the SAT I or ACT, college entrance tests, and score above the mean for college-bound high school students.