10/20/2026
Congratulations Caroline!!! Amazing!!!!
PTHS senior Caroline Adkins has received a perfect 36 composite score on the ACT.
Adkins is a National Merit semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, AP Rural and Small Town Scholar, and recipient of the AP Top School Recognition Award. She’s an alumna of the Kentucky Governor’s Scholar Program, a graduate of the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce Youth LEAD Class #15, and is currently a Paducah Rotary Student of the Month. Caroline has placed and won numerous awards at both the State and National levels for National History Day competition the last five years, most recently receiving the George Washington Leadership In History Award at the national competition. She has garnered Tilghman’s annual departmental top student awards in Math, English, Social Studies, and Science every year.
Caroline is a four-year member of the Tilghman Varsity Soccer Team and was selected for Academic All-State the past three years. She is President of the National Honor Society, is a PTHS Student Ambassador, and a member of Beta Club, PT Pageturners, and the Tilghman Concert Choir. The past two years she has been selected for the Kentucky Music Educators Association All-State Choir.
She volunteers extensively in Children’s Ministry and technology at her church and has engaged in more than sixty hours of additional volunteer and community service, including as a Summer Mercy Health Volunteer in the Cancer Center and Gift Shop.
