For the 2020-21 school year, Coppell ISD has 34 National Merit Semifinalists, 33 of which are from Coppell High School. Selection as a National Merit Semifinalist is based on the students’ scores on the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Qualifying Test. National Merit Semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors. 

These seniors will have the opportunity to continue in the program and possibly receive scholarships, which will be offered next spring to National Merit Finalists. Coppell ISD’s National Merit Semifinalists are New Tech High @ Coppell Senior Matthew Plawecki and CHS seniors: Katherine Anderson, Niyati Belathur, Sumit Chakraborty, Dojin Choi, Minwoo Choi, Preethi Jayaraman, Tanya Joseph, Tejas Kamtam, Karthik Karuppiah, Arnav Kashyap, Pranav Kommaraju, Dongkyu Lee, Meer Mahfuz, Sarah Mobley, Keertana Narayanan, Sidhaartha Palaniappan, Ella Potts, Rishab Pulugurta, Siddharth Rao, Divya Ravindra, Sidaarth Sabhnani, Anushri Saxena, Maya Shah, Yiwei Shen, Tony Shi, Nisha  Shibu, Kaitlin Tan, Cole Tramel, Khang Tran, Neil Upreti, Joel Varghese, Raymond Zhang and Rahul M Garikapati.