The nine-student team from Waukesha West High School placed fourth overall at last week's U.S. Academic Decathlon competition in Omaha, Neb.
West's team placed behind schools from California, Arizona and Illinois in the overall results, but finished first among Division II schools.
Even though the school missed out on the top prize, its students garnered plenty of individual awards. West student Dylan Verden posted the highest score at the competition, which pits teams of students against each other in an array of tests, essays, interviews and speeches.
Other students on the team were: Ben Clark, Noah Ford, Anuraag Girdhar, Josh Graham, Yuwei Jiang, Zach Taylor, Tim Truong and Katharine Tyndall.
This was West's ninth straight year of competing in the national meet, which it won in 2002.