Following are local 2010 National Merit Semifinalists, named this month by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.

They are among 16,000 high school students receiving the honor.

About 8,200 will receive National Merit Scholarships next year.

CINCO RANCH H.S.

Ajith, Anirudh
Cao, Jessica
Chaudhuri, Gargi
Chen, Hanna J.
Cunha, Gabriel B.
de Souza, Tania M.
Despard, Gregory A.
Gates, Mary E.
Head, Dulcie
Hodge, Paul S.
Karun, Vivek
Meng, Connie Y.
Miglin, Glen R.
Roy, Ankur R.
Tan, Keh-Farn Daniel
Tan, Melody T.
Tangney, William J.

HOME SCHOOL

Bernard, Caleb B.

KATY H. S.

Blacklock, Jon D.
Julian, Nicole V.
Mason, David J.

MORTON RANCH H.S.

Jones, Haley D.

SEVEN LAKES H.S.

Cheng, Kevin D.
Flattery, Neil H.
Hubble, Dion D.
Kushnir, Mason
Liao, Louis
Nady, Christopher J.
Wan, Steven G.

JAMES E. TAYLOR H.S.

Finol, David M.
Gargani, Matthew R.
Katsampes, Christina A.
Kumar, Vivaswath
Langford, Lindsay K.
Lee, Paul
Liu, Ellen
Xu, Yue
Yu, Stephanie T.
Zhu, Xiaoyan

MAYDE CREEK H.S.

Joshi, Sarang M.
Mowrey, Andrew