All tagged class of 2021

Parrott Academy graduates 46

Arendell Parrott Academy conferred diplomas on 46 graduating seniors in commencement exercises on June 4th. Held at 4 p.m. in Ellis Simon Gymnasium on the school’s campus, the ceremony featured student speakers Elena Williamson, Josh Okonkwo, and Matti Snyder. Head of School Brooks Sutton stated.

Top merit scholarships go to NL senior, host of others in LCPS’s Class of 2021

Don’t let his easy-going, soft-spoken style fool you. Jamir Jones-Gatling likes to push himself, to put himself out on a limb. A senior who’s loaded his schedule at North Lenoir High School with demanding AP and college-credit classes, a two-sport athlete, a teenager who holds down an after-school job, he’s an 18-year-old who, in his own words, always tries “to get the best out of myself.”