Wake High Schools Schedule Graduation Ceremonies
May 25, 2007 - Nineteen schools will hold graduation ceremonies using five different sites beginning 7 p.m., Friday, June 1 with the Southeast Raleigh High graduation ceremony at Reynolds Coliseum.
Schools are holding practices for their graduation ceremonies this week so students will be familiar with plans for their event. Schools have provided tickets to students for their guests and schools will be following guidelines to keep the events safe and orderly.
Southeast Raleigh High is one of ten WCPSS schools that will hold graduation ceremonies at Reynolds. On Thursday June 7, Leesville Road High has graduation at 5 p.m. and Millbrook High has graduation at 8 p.m. On Friday June 8, Wakefield High has graduation at 5 p.m. and Cary High at 8 p.m. On Saturday, June 9, Garner High has graduation at 8 a.m., Green Hope High at 11 a.m., East Wake High at 2 p.m. and Apex High at 5 p.m. Enloe High will hold its graduation at 9 a.m. on Sunday, June 10.
Principals will work to keep the ceremonies at about 75 minutes in length. They will be directing students to closely follow the plans for before, during and after the ceremony to get people in and out of ceremonies quickly.
You will have to navigate NC State campus traffic, so give yourself plenty of time to get there. Remember that Reynolds is not air conditioned, so you will want to dress appropriately.
Five high schools plan to hold graduation ceremonies at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts. On Thursday, June 7, Athens Drive High will hold its graduation at 5 p.m. and Wake Forest-Rolesville High at 8 p.m. On Friday, June 8, Fuquay-Varina High will hold its graduation at 11 a.m., Knightdale High at 2p.m. and Sanderson High at 5 p.m.
Two schools will hold graduation ceremonies at Broughton High School’s Holiday Gym. On Saturday, June 9, Broughton High holds graduation at 10 a.m. and Middle Creek High at 3 p.m.
Phillips High will hold its graduation in Meymandi Hall at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 7. Longview School will hold its graduation at Longview School at 6 p.m., Thursday, June 7.
Six schools are holding graduation at four different sites on June 7. Five schools are holding graduation at two locations on Friday, June 8 and Saturday, June 9.
This is the first graduating class for Knightdale High. Holly Springs High and Panther Creek High opened this year with ninth and tenth grades and the Wake Early College for Health and Sciences opened this year with a ninth grade.
The WCPSS Security Department will work with school staff and local law enforcement at the ceremonies. Only persons with an admission ticket will be admitted. No laptop computers, packages, artificial noisemakers, balloons, or other disruptive devices will be permitted.
Graduation ceremonies were held in the air-conditioned comfort of the Raleigh Civic Center from the 1980s until 2005 and then work began to build a new civic center. Ceremonies were held in Reynolds Coliseum and Dorton Arena in the years before the civic center was available.
The old civic center has been demolished and the new building is going up. This means that it will be 2009 before graduation ceremonies are held at the civic center again.
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