Barrington has a dozen National Merit Scholarship finalists this year. 

According to information from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, there are nine students from Barrington High School who have been selected as finalists. There are also two students from Barrington who attend Moses Brown and one who attends Wheeler who were also selected as finalists. 

The corporate-sponsored merit scholarship winners will be announced on April 20, while the National Merit $2,500 Scholarship winners will be announced on May 11. The list of college-sponsored merit scholarship winners will be released June 1, and the additional college-sponsored merit scholarship winners will be released on July 18.

This year's finalists from Barrington High School are Quentin B. Duyck, Isabelle A. Rea, Nina C. Regan, Ian Sabula, Huanglizhi Sheng, Vivian Tian, Emma R. Vorenberg, Samuel J. Whitman and Ethan S. Wold.

Barrington's Daniel A. Gemma and John O. Luby, both students are Moses Brown, were also selected as National Merit Scholarship finalists this year. And Katherine Hofmann, a Barrington resident who attends Wheeler School, is also a finalist.

There are 55 finalists from Rhode Island public and private high schools this year. Barrington had the most of any Rhode Island school with nine finalists.

The mission of National Merit Scholarship Corporation is to "recognize and honor the academically talented students of the United States."