High school seniors Mackenzie Dymek and Larry Saperstein have been recognized as Commended Students by the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program, based on their exceptional results on the 2014 preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. Dymek and Saperstein finished among the top 5 percent nationwide of the more than 1.5 million students who took part in the competition as juniors.

“We are very proud of Larry and Mackenzie’s accomplishments and wish them nothing but success in the future,” said counselor Kerri Friend.