LCPS graduation season opens Wednesday at Early College
Commencement exercises for LCPS’s Class of 2023 begin Wednesday evening when Lenoir County Early College High School seniors graduate in the gymnasium at Lenoir Community College.
Forty-one seniors from Lenoir County Early College High School will be the first of nearly 500 members of LCPS’s Class of 2023 to receive diplomas when their Wednesday ceremony kicks off a string of five graduation exercises.
Early College’s commencement is scheduled for 6 p.m. in the gymnasium at Lenoir Community College, where the high school is located. The day after receiving their diploma, 35 members of the graduating class will return to campus to be awarded associate degrees from LCC.
As is tradition at Early College, the commencement program will focus on the graduating class. Speakers will include Mariela Salgado-Villa, representing the Super-Senior, or fifth-year, class, and summa cum laude graduates Jenna Steele and Amedith Stroud.
Because Early College follows the LCC calendar, its school year starts earlier and ends earlier than other LCPS schools. Graduation ceremonies at the district’s four other high schools will come in quick succession in June. Here are the details:
Lenoir County Learning Academy – 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 6, in the chapel at Kennedy Home, where the school is located.
South Lenoir High School – 9 a.m. Saturday, June 10, in the school gym. Tickets are required for admission. South Lenoir’s Baccalaureate Service is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Sunday, June 4, in the school gym.
Kinston High School – 11 a.m. Saturday, June 10, in the school gym. Tickets are required for admission.
North Lenoir High School – 1 p.m. Saturday, June 10, in the gym at LCC. Tickets are required for admission. Commencement speaker will be Tamarah Stanley, a 2001 graduate of North Lenoir who returned to teach there and taught at other LCPS schools before moving to Virginia, where she continues to work in education as an administrator.
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