It’s nearly time once again for high school seniors to don flat hats and gowns and march to the strains of “Pomp and Circumstance.” In other words, high school graduation season is back.
Teachers and administrators are making the final determinations of which students will receive a diploma and a hearty handshake on graduation day. Top students are considering what they’ll say when they take the podium and look into the eyes of their assembled classmates. Parents are scanning the sky, hoping against rain.
Here are the times, places and locations of graduation ceremonies scheduled in Brookhaven, Buckhead, Dunwoody and Sandy Springs.
Atlanta Girls’ School
Place: The Carter Center
Date: May 14
Time: 2 p.m.
Speaker: Social advocate Lewis Perkins
Atlanta International School
Place: Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church
Date: May 27
Time: 10 a.m.
Speakers: Seniors Amy O’Halloran, Jonathan Olens, Arsalan Akhavan and Nicole Dancz
Cross Keys High School
Place: Adams Stadium
Date: May 20
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Speakers: Valedictorian Vy Thuy Tran and salutatorian Javier Garcia
Chamblee Charter High School
Place: North DeKalb Stadium
Date: May 20
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Speaker: Valedictorians Parth Agrawal and Hector Cruz, salutatorians Richard Liou and Jourdan Jackson
Dunwoody High School
Place: First Baptist Church of Atlanta
Date: May 20
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Speaker: TBA
The Galloway School
Place: School gym
Date: May 26
Time: 6 p.m.
Speaker: Various students
Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School
Place: Holy Innocents’ Main Gym
Date: May 14
Time: 10 a.m.
Speaker: Valedictorian Catherine Weston Bennett
Holy Spirit Preparatory School
Place: Holy Spirit Catholic Church
Date: May 24
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Speaker: Patrick Reilly, president and CEO of the Cardinal Newman Society
The Lovett School
Place: Peachtree Presbyterian Church
Date: May 15
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: U.S. Army Lt. Col. Shane Kimbrough, an astronaut and Lovett alumnus
Marist School
Place: Centennial Center at Marist School
Date: May 21
Time: 2 p.m.
Speaker: TBA
Mount Vernon Presbyterian School
Place: Mount Vernon Presbyterian School’s Glenn campus
Date: May 21
Time: 10 a.m.
Speaker: Alan Williams, author of “Why Teammates Matter”; valedictorian Kitt Peterson and salutatorian Zack Cook
North Atlanta High School
Place: Atlanta Civic Center
Date: May 26
Time: 2 p.m.
Speakers: Valedictorian Gueorgui Terziev and salutatorian Grace Shea
North Springs Charter High School
Place: Cobb Energy Center
Date: May 27
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Speakers: Valedictorian Megan Elizabeth Rich and salutatorian Sara Lynn LeSage
Pace Academy
Place: Peachtree Presbyterian Church
Date: May 14
Time: 4 p.m.
Speaker: Internet entrepreneur Jeffrey T. Arnold
Riverwood International Charter High School
Place: Mount Pisgah Methodist Church, 9820 Nesbit Ferry Road, Johns Creek
Date: May 28
Time: 3 p.m.
Speakers: Valedictorian Mallory Hope, Principal Eddie Echols
St. Pius X
Catholic High School
Place: Atlanta Symphony Hall
Date: May 14
Time: 9:30am
Speakers: Dexter and Lori Lummus, alumni; and Archbishop Wilton Gregory
The Weber School
Place: Greenfield Hebrew Academy
Date: June 5
Time: 11 a.m.
Speaker: Various students
The Westminster Schools
Place: Pressly Hall Patio, The Westminster Schools
Date: Saturday, May 14
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Speaker: Ciannat Howett, director of sustainability initiatives at Emory University
Sources: various schools