Michael Buttolph knows what it feels like to be at the top.

Ranked first in his class of 215, sophomore class president, ski racer, a trumpeter named to the All State Music Festival, he also has a national honor of being the Johns Hopkins University National Grand Award winner at age 13, with an SAT score of 800.

He has amazed and challenged his educators at Plymouth Regional High School where he is taking advanced-placement calculus, their top-level class.

“I’ve developed a lack of need of sleep,” said the enthusiastic, outgoing teen, who was home-schooled the first eight years of his education by his mother, Anne Buttolph.

“I don’t believe I have ever seen a student quite like Michael,” said his math teacher, Gail Poitrast, who has the sophomore in a class of 20 seniors taking AP calculus. Buttolph has an average in that class of 100.

“He’s so well-rounded. Everyone loves him,” Poitrast said.

Principal Bruce Parsons nominated Buttolph as the Francis Wayland Parker Scholar for November, and he was selected for the top honor.

“I was encouraged to excel through interactive instruction,” Buttolph wrote in his essay on the 19th-century educator, pointing to an economics project in which a group had to plan a budget.

“Rather than focusing on ... memorization without context, my class was encouraged to interactively work with the concepts as we developed our budgets. Before Parker, such practical learning rarely took place,” he wrote.

Buttolph said he is interested in perhaps exploring medicine or engineering and has his eyes on Dartmouth, Cornell, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The scholarship program is sponsored by the New Hampshire Association of School Principals in cooperation with the New Hampshire Union Leader, Verizon, Lifetouch Studios and the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Northern New England.

Other nominees for the month of November include Jeremy F. Poulin of Alvirne High School; Daniel Powell of Belmont High School; Courtney Gannon of Campbell High School; Matt J. Belletete of Conant High School; Shannon E. Nollet of Epping High School; Bridgett N. Aumand of Fall Mountain High School; Ethan K. Emerson of Groveton High School; Rachel W. Grady of Hopkinton High School; Allison K. Labore of Manchester Memorial; Jacob L. Murphy of Manchester West; Elizabeth C. Law of Moultonborough High School; and Emily R. Lloyd of Woodsville High School.