Goessel Principal Scott Boden presented a letter of commendation from USD 411 and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which conducts the NMS program, to Heath Goertzen for becoming a 2014 commended student.

About 34,000 commended students throughout the nation were recognized for exceptional academic promise. Commended students placed among the top 5 percent of more than 1.5 million students who entered the competition by taking the 2012 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.