High school senior Randol Batts of East Buchanan C-I High School has been selected for the 2012 Missouri Scholars 100 recognition. This is a statewide program that honors 100 of Missouri’s top academic students in the graduating class of 2012.

Missouri Scholars 100 is a program sponsored by the Missouri Association of Secondary School Principals. Schools across Missouri were invited to nominate candidates for this statewide recognition.

The selection is based primarily on a formula using the student’s grade point average and ACT score. Each student nominated had to first meet criteria of an “Academic Decathlon” which included ten “events” designed to assure the academic strength of the student.