MONTAGUE — There is nothing like one fewer student loan.
The recipients of the 2019 John and Abigail Adams Scholarship have been announced by the Gill-Montague Regional School District.
Samantha Bocon, Cailyn Gobeil, Alexander Houghton-Miles, Jenna Jacobsen, Anna Kochan, Garrett Martel, Tyler Noyes, Mireya Ortiz, John Putala, Will Turn, Victoria Veaudry, Sarah Waldron and Cassidhe Wozniak are this year’s recipients.
The John and Abigail Adams Scholarship provides a tuition waiver for up to eight semesters of undergraduate education at a Massachusetts state college or university.
School Superintendent Michael Sullivan and Turners Falls High School Principal Annie Leonard congratulated “these high performing students for achievement.”
Recipients become eligible for the scholarship based on their high academic achievement on MCAS tests.
To be a recipient of the scholarship, a student must earn a score of “advanced” on the English or mathematics test and “proficient” or higher on the second test and have combined scores from the MCAS English and mathematics tests placing them in the top 25 percent of students in the graduating class in their district.
Scholarship eligibility is based on each student’s first attempt at taking the grade 10 MCAS tests in English and mathematics.
These students received letters from the Secretary of Education, Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and Commissioner of Higher Education, awarding them the scholarship.