Montgomery County Public Schools had a record-setting 68 students receive National Merit Scholarship awards during the 2006-2007 school year, 10 more scholarships than the 58 collected by 2006 graduates.
There were 24 $2,500 awards funded by the National Merit Scholarship Corp., 35 college-sponsored scholarships and nine corporate-sponsored awards.
Thirteen area high schools had National Merit Scholarship recipients:
Montgomery Blair High School had 21 scholarship winners.
Walt Whitman High School had 11 scholarship winners.
Richard Montgomery High School had 10 scholarship winners.
Thomas Wootton High School had six scholarship winners.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School had five scholarship winners.
Winston Churchill High School had three scholarship winners.
Damascus High School had three scholarship winners.
Walter Johnson High School had two scholarship winners.
Sherwood High School had two scholarship winners.
Quince Orchard High School had two scholarship winners.
Poolesville High School had one scholarship winner.
Northwest High School had one scholarship winner.
Rockville High School had one scholarship winner.
MCPS winners brought home 45 percent of all National Merit Scholarship awards in Maryland, according to spokesman Brian Edwards.
