Seven days of commencement ceremonies in the Cobb County School District begin on Monday and end next Sunday, and East Cobb high schools will be bookending the schedule.
The first school to hold graduation will be Pope High School, starting at 7 p.m. Monday, and will conclude on Sunday at 7:30 p.m. with Sprayberry High School’s graduation.
All commencement exercises will take place at the KSU Convocation Center, and all will be shown live at this link. There won’t be a replay, but DVD and USB drive copies of the high-definition broadcast will be available for sale at this link.
Here’s the schedule for East Cobb high schools, and we’ll have coverage of each one as the week continues:
- Pope: Monday, May 18, 7 p.m.
- Wheeler: Tuesday, May 19, 7:30 p.m.
- Lassiter: Thursday, May 21, 2:30 p.m.
- Kell: Friday, May 22, 7 p.m.
- Walton: Sunday, May 24, 3 p.m.
- Sprayberry: Sunday, May 24, 7:30 p.m.
The Cobb school district class of 2026 is nearly 8,800 graduates strong, and according to district figures, seniors have earned more than $110 million in college scholarship offers and have been accepted to colleges and universities in 45 states, including every Ivy League institution and all U.S. military academies.
The 2025-25 Cobb school district academic year will come to a close this week as well, with all grade levels on early schedules Monday-Wednesday. Those dismissal times are as follows:
- 11:30 a.m.—High Schools
- 12:30 p.m.—Elementary Schools
- 1:30 p.m.—Middle Schools
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