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Two Ann Arbor Public Schools students and one Lincoln High School student were selected as National Achievement Scholarship Program winners, earning $2,500 college scholarships.

The National Achievement Scholarship is a subset of the National Merit Scholarship Competition that honors approximately 800 outstanding black American high school students for their academic talents.

Seven students from Washtenaw County were named semi-finalists in the competition back in October, along with 1,600 black high school seniors from across the U.S.

Rianna Johnson-Levy from Community High School in Ann Arbor, Samuel Keller from Ann Arbor's Skyline High School and Michael Myles from Lincoln High School in Ypsilanti stood out from the pack and went on to receive the monetary awards.

Like the National Merit Scholarship, students qualify for the National Achievement Scholarship Competition based on their scores on the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, which students take in the fall of their junior years of high school.

Danielle Arndt covers K-12 education for AnnArbor.com. Follow her on Twitter @DanielleArndt or email her at daniellearndt@annarbor.com.