From Full Rides to Prestigious Awards: PGCPS Grads Secure Big Wins
From Full Rides to Prestigious Awards: PGCPS Grads Secure Big Wins
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 .
Posse Scholar Recipients:
- Iyannah Ali
- Maygan Douglas
- Hendrick Pena-Robles
- Angela Aguilar
- Adefunsho Adeyemi
- Kayode Oladoyin
- Elonna Ijomah
- Ariel Dean
- Nicolas Coleman
- Favour Okonkwo
- Akosua Aryeh-Green