2012 National Merit semifinalists among Memphis Metro High School (Jackson, Franklin: homes, public school)

[Statecho]

Thanks for the board member regarding Memphis School information. Here is something I digged out recently:
List of 16000 of National Merit semifinalist was published last month. Memphis metro has total 96 (beats Nashville's 84):

White Station HS stands out with 22 semifinalist.
MUS has 15--highest among nonpublic school.
Germantown HS: 5
Houston HS: 8

Detials as following:
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Following is a list of students named National Merit semifinalists from the eight-county metropoolitan Memphis area.
ARLINGTON
ARLINGTON H. S.
McFann, Sarah E.
BOLTON H. S.
Russell, Jake C.

COLLIERVILLE
COLLIERVILLE H. S.
Boller, Jamie N.
Dean, Hunter B.
Erwin, April J.
Sossaman, Jackson R.
Stock, Tucker J.
Zheng, Brandon A.
CORDOVA
CORDOVA H. S.
Thamizharasan, Nivedita
EADS
BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN H. S.
Martin, Thomas G.
GERMANTOWN
GERMANTOWN H. S.
Barron, Thomas S.
Hernandez, Emily G.
Hu, Vivian J.
Ruleman, Eric K.
Wan, Yueqi
HOMESCHOOL
Hanna, Katherine M.
HOUSTON H. S.
Allenlundy, Charles C.
Barr, Nathaniel R.
Beall, Steven C.
Hostetter, Kirstie D.
Kim, Caroline H.
Naids, Sarah E.
To, Anthony D.
Xiao, Zheng

MEMPHIS
CENTRAL H. S.
Wallace, Molly A.
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS H. S.
Alrutz, James B.
Farrell, Matthew W.
Hill, Henry M.
Long, William H.
Scully, Michael S.
Sweeney, Patrick L.
HUTCHISON SCHOOL
McArtor, Kelley G.
Orr, Caroline M.
LAUSANNE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
Kasich, Bogdan
Ware, Spencer H.
MARGOLIN HEBREW ACADEMY
FEINSTONE YESHIVA
OF THE SOUTH
Cooper, Jeremy P.
MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
Barzel, Victor M.
Christman, John D.
Darr, Jackson
Feler, Nathan M.
Franklin, Nathan A.
Galvin, Daniel P.
Goldstein, Eli S.
Graham, Garrott S.
Greenstein, Jacob S.
House, Carder C.
Nathani, Ashish K.
Newman, John S.
Ormseth, George T.
Rouse, Nicholas M.
Sally, Lanning D.
RIDGEWAY H. S.
Barker, Abigail R.
ST. MARY'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
Castle, Cristia R.
de Witt, Alexandra E.
Elsakr, Carol R.
Fu, Linda Y.
Kanakamedala, Amritha D.
Mathews, Laura E.
Peeples, Marie L.
Stevenson, Lesley C.
Williams, Katherine E.
WESTMINSTER ACADEMY
Atnip, Winston R.
Miller, Matthew K.
WHITE STATION H. S.
Adusumilli, Nagasai C.
Barker, Abigail
Bell, Owen W.
Billett, Emily K.
Boyella, Sai P.
Chin, Brian J.
Dasari, Tejasvi K.
Desai, Sharvari S.
Drake, William M.
Gan, Keshane H.
Godinez, Allyson M.
Greenberg, Adam D.
Hoang, Lawrence M.
Kao, Gavin
Knapp, Kathryn A.
Morrell, Lucy G.
Rao, Roshan G.
Samant, Shiven
Shaffer, Ruth A.
Sloves, Anneliese E.
Wilson, Caleb A.
Zhang, Julian

HERNANDO
HERNANDO H. S.
Hilliard, George M.
HOMESCHOOL
Russell, Kaitlyn D.

OLIVE BRANCH
CENTER HILL H. S.
England, Alexis
LEWISBURG H. S.
Barber, Kaley A.
Case, Jane C.
Le, Tin N.
Rummel, Savannah Q.
OLIVE BRANCH H. S.
Dunlap, Jacob E.

SOUTHAVEN
DESOTO CENTRAL H. S.
Earwood, Daniel J.
SOUTHAVEN H. S.
Southern, Amy M.
SBEC
Galante, Sebastian D.
Pena, Wesley D.

MARION
MARION H. S.
920 Pankey, Zachary

[Statecho]

I don't have the data on how many students in each high school, so I don't know the PERCENTAGE of students who are Nationa Merit semis, which is likely a more accurate measurement than the absolute number of National Merit semis of the school.

Also, each school may put on different emphasis on National Merit contest. I know from a 2009 news article that WSHS offer 2 weeks of summer program for preparing the PreSAT test, which is part of the considerations for semifinalists selection. This may at least partially explain their success. Losanna School, on the other hand, suppose to be very good from what I heard (has IB programs), only has 2 semifinalist.