graduation

Thousands of Atlanta Public Schools (APS) seniors will receive high school diplomas during graduation ceremonies this weekend at the Boisfeuillet Jones Atlanta Civic Center, 395 Piedmont Ave. For the first time, all commencement exercises will be available for online viewing via live stream by visiting this link and clicking on a specific school.

The 2014 APS graduation schedule is as follows:

Friday, May 23
4 p.m. – Alonzo Crim Open Campus High School
6 p.m. – Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy & The B.E.S.T. Academy at Benjamin S. Carson
8 p.m. – Frederick Douglass High School

Saturday, May 24
9 a.m. – Henry W. Grady High School
12 p.m. – Booker T. Washington High School
3 p.m. – The New Schools at Carver
6 p.m. – Benjamin E. Mays High School

Sunday, May 25
9 a.m. – North Atlanta High School
12 p.m. – Maynard Holbrook Jackson High School
3 p.m. – Daniel McClaughin Therrell High School
5:30 p.m. – South Atlanta High School

The Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy High School and the B.E.S.T. Academy at Benjamin S. Carson High School (single-gender schools) will celebrate their inaugural graduating classes during a joint ceremony at 6 p.m. on May 23.

Collin Kelley is the executive editor of Atlanta Intown, Georgia Voice, and the Rough Draft newsletter. He has been a journalist for nearly four decades and is also an award-winning poet and novelist.