Moorestown Friends School seniors Gabe Hege of Delran and Lorenzo Gibson of Camden have been named National Achievement Scholarship Outstanding Participants.
The National Achievement Scholarship Program is an academic competition established in 1964 to provide recognition for outstanding African-American high school students. African-American students may enter both the National Achievement Program and the National Merit Program by taking the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test and meeting other published requirements for participation. Of the more than 160,000 students who enter the National Achievement Program each year, over 4,700 are honored. A group of about 3,100 outstanding participants are referred to colleges for their potential for academic success. A smaller group of about 1,600 are named semifinalists.
Moorestown Friends School is a day school founded by the Religious Society of Friends (also known as Quakers) in 1785. Today the school enrolls 713 students from preschool through grade 12.
