Champaign Unit 4 School District Superintendent Dr. Shelia Boozer announced that 100 students from Central and Centennial High School’s graduating class of 2024 have been designated as Illinois State Scholars.
The Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC), the state’s college access and financial aid agency, presents this important recognition of academic achievement to exceptional Illinois high school students annually. This year, nearly 16,700 honorees join the other outstanding students who have been honored since the designation was first introduced in 1958.
This list of Unit 4 Illinois State Scholars is as follows:
| MaKenna Beaulin | Tammy Marinichev | Iris Burov | Elise Ionin | Stefan Popa |
| Annika Blackburn | Wyatt McCarty | Lindsay Campbell | Keerthi Jagarlamudi | Casey Pyrz |
| Francis Brigoli | Sarmad Mizan | Everette Carlson | Shalin Joshi | Avi Rhodes |
| Elena Carrilo | Clare Pate | Charlotte Chesser | Eleanor Kim | Katharine Roth |
| Natalie Caughlin | Riley Ries | Alexander Cho | Eunice Kim | Maxwell Ryan |
| Dana Chehab | Salma Rojano | Thomas Costello | Andrew Kindratenko | Samaira Sandil |
| Mia Childress | Trevor Schoonover | Rachael Coventry | Jack Larson | Evelyn Schuchart |
| Emily Fallaw | Gavin Sheppard | Jake Crawmer | Michael Lee | Sanjay Selvam |
| Maya Favila | Jenna Shin | Elijah Dorsla | Angela Lin | Kate Simmons |
| Alfonso Gutierrez | Carson Smith | Jacqueline Douglas | Joshua Loftus | Ryan Slifer |
| Alexander Hackman | Sandhya Subbiah | Harper Farrell | Swarup Majumder | Darwyn Sly |
| Jonathan Hahn | Emily Tam | Jonah Friedman | Abigail McKendall | Jonathan Smith |
| Jonathan Harrell | Wilson Tian | Jackson Greenwold | Sarah McKendall | Savannah Stortzum |
| Elena Hoang | Christina Tran | Manmitha Gunasekera | Christopher Miller | Hannah Su |
| Joshua Hooper | Sadie Tsiakals | Hasan Hanif | Robert Miller | Sarah Su |
| Daniel Juhn | Ares Zhu | Caden Hanlon | Mariclare Ogorman | Benjamin Sutton |
| Shounok Kar | Ezra Bernhard | Leah Hernandez | Madeleine Orlie-Frost | Ayesha Waheed |
| Lilian Kelly | Madeleine Bigler | Daniel Herzog | Carleigh Parks | Kalah Weber |
| Joaquin Leon | Elyes Boubekri | Kelly Hong | Thomas Pipkins | Murphy Wilberg |
| Helena Lynn | Parker Burk | Brooklyn Hubbard | Aaron Poetzel | Abigail Yoon |