Paducah Tilghman High School juniors Landon Hinz, Lucy LeBuhn, Savana Pastor-Newton, and Jillian Slaughter have been accepted to the 2025 Commonwealth Honors Academy.
The Commonwealth Honors Academy is a three-week academic enrichment experience held every June on Murray State University’s main campus. Students live and learn with their peers and teachers from the area as they take college-level honors courses, take field trips that enrich classroom experiences, attend speakers and listen to professional artists perform and talk about their work, and participate in social and personal growth seminars.
Students who attend this academy gain 3 hours of college credits and a 4-year full tuition scholarship to Murray State University, provided certain qualifications are maintained. There is no obligation to attend MSU and the credits can be transferred to a college of the student’s choice. All students applying for the Commonwealth Honors Academy should have a 3.5 GPA (on a 4 point scale) and a 25 Composite ACT score (or the equivalent PSAT, SAT, or another standardized test score). High school juniors throughout Kentucky as well as out-of-state are invited to apply to this competitive program.
Pictured L to R: Savana Pastor-Newton, Lucy LeBuhn, Landon Hinz, and Jillian Slaughter