Nine students from The Frazer School named National Merit Semifinalists
Press release from The Frazer School
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Nine seniors at The Frazer School have earned prestigious semifinalist status in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship program, according to a list released this week by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which administers the program. Fewer than 1% of high school seniors earned that status this year.
About 1.3 million students took the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as juniors during the last school year, with 16,000 earning semifinalist status based on their performance on that exam.
The Frazer School’s National Merit Semifinalists are Jack Foran, Vijay Hans, Katie He, Eileen Lai, Philip Matchev, Sophia Rong, Caleb Wang, Thomas Wu, and Luke Xue.
“We are very honored to have these nine incredible students who chose to enroll in our school in its inaugural year,” said Mr. Fayiga, the principal of The Frazer School.
Congratulations to the young adults and their families for this scholarship achievement!
Where’s Frazer school located? Never heard of it…
A private school that has no money, no structure, but families send their kids too
Bro, Miles, you gotta take a chill pill. The Frazer School has been here for maybe more than a month? It has really great teachers, plenty of funding, and the school’s structure is starting to come together. Just bc you think this school is a dumpster fire doesn’t mean that it is.
I love this .. I knew the Frazier school was a good fit for our small community. Congrats to the semi finalists
Great job, Jack Foran, Vijay Hans, Katie He, Eileen Lai, Philip Matchev, Sophia Rong, Caleb Wang, Thomas Wu, and Luke Xue!
Replying to the low-lifer who gave thumbs down:
Is this all that you got?
Demeaning these smart and hard-working students’ achievements? REALLY?
To be fair, these students are products of SBAC system, since most of them were students of public schools up until last month. The question you should be asking is “will these students get this scholarship, had they been in Buchholz?” And you will get the answer as “Yes”. Frazer taking credit is unfair and irrelevant at this point.The school has not produced a single data point that proves otherwise.
Very well Said Kevin!!!!
Were any local public schools represented? Correct me if I’m wrong, but seeing as how the Frazer school recently came into existence, these students presumably were somewhere else last year.
Not taking away from this incredible achievement, they are to be commended.
That being said, the diversity represented is not exactly what the school district is pushing.
Afaik they all attended Buchholz High School last year and were part of Frazer’s math team.
Yes, fake news by Fayiga who everyone complains about in Frazer school
How do you know it’s everyone, dude?
Do your homework before making sweeping statements.
These students were part of the math program at Buchholz HS last year. Naturally, they followed their legendary teachers at the new Frazer School.
The School District is/was a joke when McGraw was at the helm, with the high achievers tragically destined for sacrificing.
Congratulations to these amazing seniors and, of course, their famed teachers!
Your legend is a joke too!
Like you said they put the news, it is one school with no structure, no funds and not secure.
Yes, Alachua has posted the other 21. They were part of Buchholz school
Fake news by Fayiga from school, yes ACSP posted same amount of scholar’s for each public high school in the Alachua websites. This school has no structure, and I agree with comments credit to Buchholz not legendary math teacher with his school that has no security, no cleanliness and middle school teacher, teaching high school. Don’t get fulled by news school posts with vouchers from people taxes.
Just exercise your imagination and envision how much ahead the middle schoolers taught by HS teachers will be 2-3 years from now.
Alas, why so much venom?
There are 21 of them in Alachua County in Gainesville public school, these students also attended buchholz. The Frazer school has just started, no structure or security and kids are leaving this school.
Miles, dude, take a breath.
The teachers who taught them moved to the Frazer school, too. The students wanted to follow them.
WHY ARE YOU SAYING THIS
it is only just starting, get a chill pill, stop saying random things that gets more thumbs down than any other comment.
Perhaps Miles had a student who was not accepted to the Frazer school OR he applied to work there and was found to be not qualified. Clearly he has some personal issue with the school. Parents of high achieving students take very seriously decisions about their children’s education. I certainly trust these parents to make informed decisions. Sheesh Miles. The school is going to succeed regardless of your animosity.
How many kids so far left the school? Ask them or give your school data out? Don’t type none! Everyone who applied got accepted to Frazer as they needed student. Teachers, working more than their salaries now with no benefit, why someone wants to move except the retire ones?
There are better ways to point out faults within the Frazer School, and ranting about them and insulting anyone who supports the Frazer School isn’t going to make you more convincing. You haven’t defended how the public schools are much better for students who want to achieve at a higher level and learn more. Look at public school teachers and you will find teachers who can’t teach anything. At least the Frazer School doesn’t hire teachers that don’t want to teach.
Frazer is a parent run cooperative school at this point.
Thats correct, and parent teachers too. Trying to do anything possible to teach their kids to pass the year
I am talking about Frazer a parent charter school at this point not what we signed up a private competitive School. We are not defending any school, but this school is far from perfect, let’s be honest and hope this school year passes as many parents are already overwhelmed.
For all the knuckleheads who talk about the lack of security, maybe the need is less given those attending. Maybe they have security and you just don’t know who or what it is.
No structure? Looks like the students have been taught some kind of structure during their educational years. I’d even be willing to bet the majority have what would be considered a nuclear family structure.
Unfortunate those who detract are the same who aren’t willing to acknowledge the issues occurring in most the public schools, and are even less willing to support what’s needed to fix it.
And bunch of the distracted kids now from middle school study with high schoolers. A smart person knows security is not always from in school, it can be from outside. Frazer school needs 5-6 years to become a school. In math team is different story, Frazer has your kids back, specifically they left their high school last year to make a name for your school. Go educate yourself how security is important for a school in that neighborhood.
W H A T? Security needed in that neighborhood?
You get a “D” for effort, even though you’re wrong, and your statement isn’t very clear.
See https://frazerschool.org/
I have to agree with the negative comments. In addition, having your child taught by inexperienced, recent graduates only adds to the complexity and challenges of this new school.