2022-2023HONOR GRADUATES

Valedictorian Hassankhan

This year's valedictorian is a truly exceptional Red Elephant Hassan Khan is the youngest of four siblings to graduate from Gainesville High School. Hassan has been a part of the Big Red Family since Pre-K, attending Gainesville Exploration Academy, New Holland and Centennial throughout elementary school, and on to Gainesville Middle School

As a child of Pakistani immigrants Hassan applied his resilience and determination in his academics and shown kindness and dedication through his service. Hassan is not only impressive academically, but he also served as the president of seven clubs and the vice president of four, all while volunteering his time as a peer tutor after school.

Hassan was accepted to five Ivy League schools before committing to Princeton University. During his time at GHS he earned 70 hours of college credit by scoring the highest possible score of 5 in his 18 AP tests. Had he chosen to attend a public state school he would have been a junior on the first day of class

As a National Merit finalist Hassan is one of 840 students in the nation (top 024%) and the only in Hall County to earn this scholarship along with the Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship ($55,000 annually for 4 years) and the Gates Scholarship (fully funded undergraduate scholarship covering tuition, fees, room, board, books and transportation cost)

Hassan will be majoring in computer science when he begins Princeton University in the fall. He plans to continue his AP research project focused on gerrymandering.