The National K-12 Grade Championships took place in Orlando, Florida, USA from the 3rd of December to the 5th December. The event boasted a total attendance of 1725 preregistered players, the highest total since 2003. 289 players competed in the blitz portion of the event, an increase of 79 players since last year. In the K-12 blitz, Andrew Liu from Massachusetts emerged victorious, while Arai Gordon Lee from Kansas won the K-6 Blitz portion.
Jonathan Chen (1554) from California takes first place with a perfect score of 7 wins in 7 rounds. Samarth Rao Bellayaru (1419) from Georgia takes the silver with 6.5 points and Nikhil Parvathaneni (1327) secures bronze with 6 points.
View all grade and middle school results here: Grade 1 / Grade 2 / Grade 3 / Grade 4 / Grade 5 / Grade 6 / Grade 7
Final standings
| No. | Name | St | Rate | Pts |
| 1 | Chen, Jonathan | CA | 1554 | 7 |
| 2 | Bellayaru, Samarth Rao | GA | 1419 | 6.5 |
| 3 | Parvathaneni, Nikhil | CA | 1327 | 6 |
| 4 | Raghuraja, Sri Avishkar | TX | 1328 | 6 |
| 5 | Fini, Thomas James | NY | 1320 | 6 |
| 6 | Khan, Hayyan Ahmad | LA | 1395 | 6 |
| 7 | Ma, Dylan | NY | 1115 | 6 |
| 8 | Cooke, Grayson Kenneth | FL | 1302 | 6 |
| 9 | Nakada, Johji David | NY | 1335 | 5.5 |
| 10 | Rubinstein Mash, Alexander | NY | 1192 | 5.5 |
| 11 | Estabridis, Santiago | FL | 1068 | 5.5 |
| 12 | Clarke, Kishan Emmanuel | 1134 | 5.5 | |
| 13 | Xuan, Owen | WA | 1479 | 5 |
| 14 | Rama, Tejas | NJ | 1431 | 5 |
| 15 | Wu, Nathan Ping-Ying | NY | 1308 | 5 |
| 16 | Kaur, Aradh | WI | 1299 | 5 |
| 17 | Ngo, Bach | FL | 919 | 5 |
| 18 | Dang, Anthony | FL | 944 | 5 |
| 19 | Vonteru, Abhinav | VA | 1148 | 5 |
| 20 | Berman, Alexander Morris | NY | 1095 | 5 |
| 21 | Safranek, William | NY | 1557 | 5 |
| 22 | Segarra, Benjamin | NY | 886 | 5 |
| 23 | Zhu, Albert Weibo | NJ | 963 | 5 |
| 24 | Ganti-Agrawal, Siddharth | NY | 1003 | 5 |
| 25 | Kwok, Nicholas C | FL | 1099 | 5 |
| 26 | Okun, Jack | FL | 798 | 5 |
| 27 | Bergman Chudnow, Bryan | NY | 919 | 5 |
| 28 | Satheesh, Aatish | TN | 1218 | 5 |
| 29 | Weinberg, Jonathan | NY | 1108 | 5 |
| 30 | Daucher, Edmund Styron | NY | 1160 | 5 |
| 31 | Liu, Edison | OH | 1028 | 5 |
| 32 | Kojima, Spencer Hayden | NY | 933 | 5 |
| 33 | Wu, David | NY | 944 | 5 |
| 34 | Graham, Henry Milford | CT | 968 | 5 |
| 35 | Bolanos, Julio Andres | FL | 727 | 5 |
| 36 | Shukla, Aniket | FL | 741 | 4.5 |
| 37 | Sloan, Jed | NY | 1163 | 4.5 |
| 38 | Aakarshan, Kumar | TX | 1160 | 4.5 |
| 39 | Padhye, Rohan | OH | 1147 | 4.5 |
| 40 | Golden, Ripley | NY | 696 | 4.5 |
| 41 | Aguila, Braden Ace | FL | 914 | 4.5 |
| 42 | Frank, Will | NY | 649 | 4.5 |
| 43 | Wei, Michael Bole | FL | 901 | 4.5 |
| 44 | Friedman, Andrew Charles | IL | 918 | 4 |
| 45 | Rhodes, Gabriel | NY | 917 | 4 |
| 46 | Thur De Koos, Paul | FL | 951 | 4 |
| 47 | Forbach, Kai | NC | 991 | 4 |
| 48 | Gaon, Dan | NY | 800 | 4 |
| 49 | Wu, Andy | FL | 1041 | 4 |
| 50 | Gogolin, Milan | NY | 709 | 4 |
| 51 | Tran, Samuel | WA | 849 | 4 |
| 52 | Gupta, Yash | TN | 768 | 4 |
| 53 | He, Jayden | FL | 769 | 4 |
| 54 | Wallace, Karsten Richard | AL | 775 | 4 |
| 55 | Shih, Marcus | FL | 836 | 4 |
| 56 | Sari, Noah Steffens | NC | 823 | 4 |
| 57 | Hosad, Shubh | TN | 639 | 4 |
| 58 | Duenas, Audrey Marie | FL | 805 | 4 |
| 59 | Nam, Lauren | NY | 594 | 4 |
| 60 | Chang, Oliver | NY | 634 | 4 |
| 61 | Parashar, Dheemant Saumil | GA | 771 | 4 |
| 62 | Van Boxtel, Ezra Benjamin | NY | 1111 | 4 |
| 63 | Segura, Christian Ellison | FL | 667 | 4 |
| 64 | Weaver, Logan | FL | 804 | 4 |
| 65 | Turenne, Nathan | FL | 773 | 4 |
| 66 | Carlson, Grant Thunder | NY | 1061 | 4 |
| 67 | Wehbe, Ronnie | FL | 717 | 4 |
| 68 | Nicholson, Ian | NY | 609 | 4 |
| 69 | Felsher, Gary Isaac | NY | 1206 | 4 |
| 70 | Levin, Gabriel | NY | 909 | 4 |
| 71 | Saldivar Jr, Felix | TX | 1167 | 4 |
| 72 | Krishna, Rohan | NY | 735 | 4 |
| 73 | Gillott, Miles William | CT | 763 | 4 |
| 74 | Venkat, Varshini | FL | 877 | 4 |
| 75 | Ever, Dylan Blake | CT | 668 | 4 |
| 76 | Huston, Louisa | NY | 750 | 4 |
| 77 | Parks-Church, Owen George | FL | 747 | 4 |
| 78 | Kobla, Rithika | VA | 710 | 4 |
| 79 | Roso, Ela | NY | 402 | 4 |
| 80 | Ye, Andrew | FL | 845 | 3.5 |
| 81 | Sahai, Neel | FL | 587 | 3.5 |
| 82 | Teitelman, Aiden | NY | 633 | 3.5 |
| 83 | Ferrone, Nicholas | NY | 1014 | 3.5 |
| 84 | Galeano, Samuel | FL | 791 | 3.5 |
| 85 | Feiner, Bret | NY | 392 | 3.5 |
| 86 | Eliezer, Andrei Benjamin | NY | 786 | 3.5 |
| 87 | Mena, Ron | NY | 789 | 3.5 |
| 88 | Guan, Michael X | FL | 649 | 3.5 |
| 89 | Lencz, Ethan | NY | 910 | 3.5 |
| 90 | Khemlani, Krish Roshan | 1014 | 3.5 | |
| 91 | Burton, Erica | NY | 573 | 3.5 |
| 92 | Joseph, Jason | NY | 569 | 3.5 |
| 93 | Boivin, John Edward Kenichi | HI | 3.5 | |
| 94 | Castellano, Xavier | FL | 783 | 3.5 |
| 95 | Rutkoske, Cade | NY | 893 | 3 |
| 96 | Dufford, Aiden | NY | 666 | 3 |
| 97 | Saber, Shane | NY | 843 | 3 |
| 98 | Erde, Cameron | NY | 947 | 3 |
| 99 | Agnihotri, Vihaan | NY | 749 | 3 |
| 100 | Liu, Kevin Yuan | FL | 519 | 3 |
| 101 | Zendejas, Rodrigo | FL | 640 | 3 |
| 102 | Behringer, Neel Theodore | CT | 918 | 3 |
| 103 | Chao, Elaine K | WA | 3 | |
| 104 | Carmel, Tobias Axelsen | NY | 479 | 3 |
| 105 | Dase, Lillian | NY | 181 | 3 |
| 106 | Kalyankar, Aadityasai | GA | 181 | 3 |
| 107 | Kazemi, Zall Latifi | NY | 436 | 3 |
| 108 | Koppe, Carson James | FL | 573 | 3 |
| 109 | Beirne, Josiah | NY | 242 | 3 |
| 110 | Mihalow, Phinnaeus | NY | 384 | 3 |
| 111 | Nicolescu, Tiberius A | FL | 610 | 3 |
| 112 | Del Valle, Esteban | FL | 601 | 3 |
| 113 | Schell, Lucy Maude | NY | 275 | 3 |
| 114 | Patel, Kishan | TX | 465 | 3 |
| 115 | Chen, Logan | NY | 644 | 3 |
| 116 | Antolinez, Eli | FL | 410 | 3 |
| 117 | Race, Nathan | WA | 472 | 3 |
| 118 | Heelan, Xiao Xiao Alexander | NY | 617 | 3 |
| 119 | Turchin, Sebastian | NY | 505 | 3 |
| 120 | Anil, Roshan | FL | 551 | 3 |
| 121 | Marberry, Kevin Nguyen | OR | 110 | 3 |
| 122 | Punnoose, Zachary J | NY | 329 | 3 |
| 123 | Oodal, Roshan | FL | 248 | 3 |
| 124 | Kinney, Moira | WA | 446 | 3 |
| 125 | Kuehl, Hunter Michael | WI | 397 | 3 |
| 126 | Golub, Julian | NY | 450 | 3 |
| 127 | Dotov, Victor | NY | 315 | 3 |
| 128 | Antoni, Isabella Amy | FL | 382 | 3 |
| 129 | Epstein, Keagan | FL | 240 | 3 |
| 130 | Linnett, William | CT | 254 | 3 |
| 131 | Barlick, Armando | FL | 570 | 3 |
| 132 | Kotaru, Aditya | TX | 569 | 2.5 |
| 133 | Iyer, Aneesh | NJ | 141 | 2.5 |
| 134 | Bankhead, Alexander Preston | CA | 463 | 2.5 |
| 135 | Agrawal, Alex | NY | 766 | 2.5 |
| 136 | Mercer, Emily Grace | FL | 375 | 2.5 |
| 137 | Salazar, Noah Lawrence | FL | 334 | 2.5 |
| 138 | Hernandez, Aisar | FL | 312 | 2 |
| 139 | Asiamah, Priscilla | FL | 578 | 2 |
| 140 | Sun, Zenchi | NY | 470 | 2 |
| 141 | Norbom, Juliet | FL | 409 | 2 |
| 142 | Lehman, Jonah | NY | 465 | 2 |
| 143 | Ochoa, Lucas | FL | 371 | 2 |
| 144 | Chirino, Joselyn | FL | 454 | 2 |
| 145 | Friedland, Charlie | NY | 403 | 2 |
| 146 | Beck, Avery | CT | 664 | 2 |
| 147 | Nidadavolu, Prajwal | FL | 2 | |
| 148 | Griffis, Grace | FL | 387 | 2 |
| 149 | Florent, Malachai | FL | 287 | 2 |
| 150 | Harvey, Gabrielle | FL | 371 | 2 |
| 151 | Carmina, Ryan Bernard | NY | 389 | 2 |
| 152 | Linson, Christopher | FL | 268 | 2 |
| 153 | Franco, Jocelyn | FL | 250 | 2 |
| 154 | Jones Jr, Lawrence | FL | 261 | 2 |
| 155 | Smith, Alec | NY | 157 | 2 |
| 156 | Carrerou, Benjamin Gerardo | FL | 325 | 2 |
| 157 | Parafita, Brianna | FL | 144 | 2 |
| 158 | Gaona, Maria | FL | 184 | 2 |
| 159 | Mcintyre, Malcolm | FL | 101 | 2 |
| 160 | Ginsberg, Jordan | NY | 2 | |
| 161 | Cronenbold, Sean | FL | 104 | 2 |
| 162 | Zelhof, Mia Angelina | FL | 113 | 2 |
| 163 | Torres, Rosaleia | CA | 322 | 1.5 |
| 164 | Wadsworth, Lindsay | FL | 413 | 1.5 |
| 165 | Jarquin, Nicholas | FL | 1 | |
| 166 | Santos, Victoria | FL | 1 | |
| 167 | Seguara, Damian | FL | 1 | |
| 168 | Warren, Fiona Merron | FL | 1 | |
| 169 | Pearson, Daniel Luke | FL | 1 | |
| 170 | Garrow, Liam | FL | 1 | |
| 171 | Duenas, Sergio | FL | 1 | |
| 172 | Paranjape, Gargi | FL | 198 | 1 |
| 173 | Herman, Alexis | FL | 1016 | 0 |
