From Full Rides to Prestigious Awards: PGCPS Grads Secure Big Wins

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Communications

Jun 06, 2024

Nearly 4,000 students in the Class of 2024 earned more than $300 million in scholarship awards and acceptances to hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide. Leading the scholarship board is Charles Herbert Flowers High School, with nearly $195 million, followed by Oxon Hill High School with $22 million.

Eleanor Roosevelt High School, who had the most students in the Class of 2024 to receive a scholarship, received nearly $18 million.

Scholarship highlights include:

Eleven graduates named Posse Scholars and will receive four-year, full-tuition college scholarships from The Posse Foundation’s partnering schools. (see names below)

Charles H. Flowers High School scholar-athlete Braydon Lee has 32 full ride offers to Division 1 schools, has accumulated nearly $8 million in scholarship offers and is an All Met/All State Player attending the University of Maryland.
International High School at Langley Park graduate Ashly Cifuentes received a full merit scholarship to Notre Dame University in Indiana to study aerospace engineering and Latino studies.
Ayat Hasan from Eleanor Roosevelt High School won the 2024 Cooke College Scholar award receiving up to $55,000 per year to pursue a bachelor's degree.
More than 60 deserving graduates earned more than $325,000 in scholarships from the Excellence in Education Foundation and MGM.
Joseph A. McDougal, a Eleanor Roosevelt High School graduate, will join more than 2,800 other college-sponsored award recipients in receiving a $2,500 National College-Sponsored Merit Scholarship .