Stafford County, Va. –– More than 2,000 students are preparing to graduate from high schools in Stafford County on Saturday.
Mountain View High School will graduate 460 students in its fifth graduating class tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. This class collectively earned over 3.5 million dollars in scholarships, a school record. The Valedictorian is Miranda Reichhardt. The Salutatorian is Brittany Scites.
Stafford High School will graduate 418 students at their ceremony Saturday at 8:30 a.m. The Valedictorian is Ik Su Oh and the Salutatorian is Matthew Francom. Stafford High has 4 sets of twins (Brittany and Michael Hicks, Chris and Maya Mardini, Jennifer and Michael Mongrain and Britney and Lauren Wible) in this graduating class and the first of the African refugee students, Nijimbere Eliphase, will graduate.
Colonial Forge High School will graduate 493 students at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. The Valedictorian is Emily Schutzenhofer with a 4.909 grade point average. The Salutatorian is Chester Gray with a 4.88 grade point average. Their graduating class includes a National Merit Scholarship Recipient, Kristin Asmus, who plans to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Brooke Point High School will graduate 427 students on Saturday morning at 8 a.m.. Their Valedictorian is Valeria Giberti and their Salutatorian is Erin N. Zalewski. Also in the graduating class is Kevin McGlade who tried out for the Olympic Skeleton Training team and made it. He will be attending college in Lake Placid, New York, while training in the skeleton event.
North Stafford High School will graduate 420 students on Saturday morning 8 a.m. Their Valedictorian is Caroline Jansen who received a perfect score on the SAT. The Salutatorian for North Stafford is Matthew Nicholas who has served as the commander of the Air Force JROTC unit and will be attending the United States Air Force Academy.
-Press release