Twelve seniors from the four Fayette County High Schools have been announced as Illinois State Scholars. Illinois State Scholars are honored based on students GPA at the end of their junior years as well as ACT and Sat scores and make up approximately the top ten percent of senior students in the state. Vandalia High School has nine Illinois State Scholars this year: Adeline Bowen, Sarah Craig, Bryce Dunn, Kennedy Fiscus, Caddie Howard, Alexis McNealy, Shelby Nash, Madison Schmitt and Emma Warner. Brownstown, Ramsey and St. Elmo each have one State Scholar each as Kyzara Hissong of Brownstown, Meg England of Ramsey and Megan Denton of St. Elmo have all received the honor.