Celebrating The Early College Class Of 2023!

By Ken Brunner, Principal

Early College celebrated the accomplishments of the students from the class of 2023. These students came to Early College as a class of promise. This class has had 70% of them make the honor or merit roll in the fall of 2019. Needless to say, this class is special. This is also the class that was hit by the pandemic in the second semester of their freshman year. They faced upper leadership changes, their school moving to another location, and four different versions of school learning schedules. Virtual learning happened in the 2nd half of their 9th-grade year.

After the students were still locked down due to COVID restrictions over the summer, they began the school year as tenth graders by going to school on alternate days (blended learning - reconnect).

This class of 2023 was then moved from the downtown campus to the Lehman building, going from a 9-12 school to a 7-12 middle and high school building all together, where they had to attend school and mask up in a social distance learning setting. During their senior year, they went back to a pre-COVID school setting. Overall with four years of high school, they endured each of the four years with big changes.

Even with all of these obstacles, the Early College class of 2023 earned 51 Associate of Arts Degrees and 34 of them were dual degrees. All of the students in this class graduated high school with at least 25 college credits. This class earned at least $600,000 in scholarships and counting.

Despite all the roadblocks that got in their way the class of 2023 found a way to make it to this point. Congratulations graduates. Remember, “Believe in Yourself, Dream, Try, and Do Good”.

- Mr. Feeny