Essex High School juniors Pankti Desai, Zahrah Muhammad, Holden Friesel, Lucy Noyes, and sophomore Ronin Ferree have been selected for the 2025 Achievement Award in Writing, given by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Desai, Muhammad, and Noyes were all awarded the top distinction of First Class.
The NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing is a school-based writing program established in 1957 to encourage high school students to write and to recognize some of the best student writers in the nation. Schools in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, US territories, Canada, and American schools abroad are eligible to nominate students for the writing program.