Flash Report: 2024 National K-12 Grade Championships

The 2024 National K-12 Grade Championships took place from December 6-8 at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Individual and team champions were crowned in grades K through 12. With more than 2,700 players in attendance from 45 states, this was the largest K-12 Grade Championships in US Chess history!

Below are the individual and team winners by grade. When co-champions are listed, they are in tiebreak order. All photos are by Caroline King for US Chess.

12th Grade

Individual: FM Avi Kaplan (Lane Tech College Prep, Chicago, IL), Arnav Gupta (Thomas Jefferson HS, Alexandria, VA), 6/7.

Gupta (L), Kaplan (R) (Caroline King for US Chess) — Gupta (L) and Kaplan

Team: Thomas Jefferson HS (Alexandria, VA), 16.5.

Thomas Jefferson HS (Alexandria, VA) (Caroline King for US Chess)

11th Grade

Individual: IM Evan Park (DUP, Pittsburgh, PA), IM Liran Zhou (Jericho HS, Jericho, NY), William Safranek (Dalton, New York, NY), Jed Sloan (Stuyvesant HS, New York, NY), 6/7.

Team: American Heritage School (Plantation, FL), Stuyvesant HS (New York, NY), Livingston High School (Livingston, NJ), 15.

10th Grade

Individual: IM Erick Zhao (Winchester Thurston, Pittsburgh, PA), 6½/7.

Team: The Frazer School (Gainesville, FL), 14½.

9th Grade

Individual: Nikash Vemparala (Overlake School, Redmond, WA), 7/7.

Team: Ardrey Kell High School (Charlotte, NC), 14½.

8th Grade

Individual: Yiding Lu (Independent Bellevue, Bellevue, WA), Andrew Jiang (Autery Mill MS, Alpharetta, GA), Kyle Zhuang (Frost MS, Fairfax, VA), Oscar Izzy Williams (Independence MS, Jupiter, FL), 6/7.

Team: Millburn Middle School (Millburn, NJ), 15.

7th Grade

Individual: Bryan Lin (Hunter College Campus School, New York, NY), 7/7.

Team: Hunter College Campus School (New York, NY), 18½.

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6th Grade

Individual: Kyle Dong (Lewis F. Cole Intermediate School, Fort Lee, NY), Elliott Goodrich (Dalton, New York, NY), 6/7.

Team: Dalton (New York, NY), 16.

5th Grade

Individual: Ariv Debmisra (Garnet Valley Elementary), Lev Shangin (Speyer Legacy School, New York, NY), Lucas Yang (Speyer Legacy School, New York, NY), Shiv Dubey (PS 77 – Lower Lab School, New York, NY), Julian Ma (Tenakill MS, Closter, NJ), Jacob Wang (Solis Park K-8, Irvine, CA), Samuel Le (Bala Cynwyd MS, Bala Cynwyd, PA), Logan Freiman (Dalton, New York, NY), 6/7.