As graduations continue this week, Cobb schools valedictorians and salutatorians have been named. The district also has released some college-bound information for the class of 2018.
About 76 percent of the graduates across the Cobb County School District are headed for college, according to information made public Tuesday. A total of 6,078 of the more than 8,000 graduates are heading for college.
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Topping the list are Walton and Lassiter in East Cobb, with each school having more than 500 college-bound seniors.
In addition, more than $115 million in scholarship aid has been awarded to Cobb graduates, with students from Walton leading the way with $18.9 million.
Here are the East Cobb high school valedictorians and salutatorians, including their grade-point averages, where they’re headed to college and what they’ll be studying:
Kell High School
- Valedictorian: Brian Tyler Buckley (4.5, Georgia Tech, industrial engineering)
- Salutatorian: Veronica May Achinger (4.403, UGA, middle grades education)
Lassiter High School
- Valedictorian: Anastasia Achieng Onyango (4.707, Harvard, biomedical engineering)
- Salutatorian: Neal Michael Ostrowski (4.680, UNC-Chapel Hill, biomedical engineering)
Pope High School
- Valedictorian: Caleigh Ann Cullinan (4.768, UGA, biology and psychology)
- Salutatorian: Hisham Kashif (4.741, Augusta University, cell and molecular biology)
Sprayberry High School
- Valedictorian: Mark Andrew Giles, Jr. (4.726, Mercer University, neuroscience and pre-medicine)
- Salutatorian: Payton Grace Wade (4.636, College of Charleston, biology)
Walton High School
- Valedictorian: Andrew Hoon Chyong (4.8, Georgia Tech, biomedical engineering)
- Salutatorian: Melody Mei Wang (4.759, Harvard University, economics)
Wheeler High School
- Valedictorian: Shawn Michael Doss (4.735, Johns Hopkins University, neuroscience)
- Salutatorian: Grace Kathryn Whittington (4.727, Yale University, global affairs).
More fun facts about some East Cobb students from the Class of 2018, via the CCSD:
Lassiter High School:
- A student is attending Cambridge University in United Kingdom, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world.
- About 28 students will be NCAA athletes.
Pope High School:
- Pope graduates will attend MIT, Emory, Georgetown, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Williams College, Northeastern, Loyola Chicago, and American.
- Pope students were accepted to Furman, Howard, George Washington, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, Washington & Lee, Cleveland Institute of Music, Rose-Holman Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Institute of Technology, California Institute of Technology, Duke, Davidson, Johns Hopkins, The Peabody Institute, Carlton, and Rice.
Walton High School:
- Melody Wang was a U.S. Presidential Scholar semifinalist.
- Walton graduates include three STAR Students, Robert Morgan, Grace Zhou and Daniel Hudadoff
- Five Georgia Scholars attended Walton: Ekta Deshmukh, Daniel Hudadoff, Madelyn Johnson, Laura Key, Adarshini Raja
- Two of the Military Academy appointments come from Walton: Wesley Nourachi to U.S. Naval Academy and Blaine McDonough to U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Wheeler High School:
- Foundation Fellow at University of Georgia, Tate Hunda
- Offered the STAMPS Scholarship at Georgia Tech, Grace Whittington
- Accepted ROTC Scholarship to Auburn, Mitchell Landrum
- Georgia Scholar, MJ Locke.
