The Cobb County School District on Tuesday announced the Class of 2019 valedictorians and salutatorians, and students from East Cobb schools had some of the highest grade-point averages in the county.
Walton’s William Ellsworth topped all seniors with a GPA of 4.875, and he’s headed to Stanford University. Walton’s salutatorian, Daniel Shu, has a GPA of 4.833, and he’s off to Vanderbilt.
All of the East Cobb vals and sals had GPAs in excess of 4.6, and many of those are going to Georgia Tech. The countywide average is 4.66 for the Class of 2019, which numbers more than 8,000 in 16 Cobb high schools.
CCSD said 94 percent of those graduates will be getting their diplomas on time, which is a record, and 75 percent are college-bound.
Cobb graduates have earned more than $118 million in scholarships, outside of the HOPE and Zell Mill scholarship programs. A total of $12 million in scholarships is going to Pope graduates.
Graduation started Tuesday afternoon for Kell. The other East Cobb schools’ graduation schedules are listed below, along with their valedictorians, salutatorians, GPAs, college choices and intended majors.
Kell (Tuesday, 3:30 p.m., KSU)
Valedictorian —Annabelle Alejandra Colmenares Mayz, 4.6.14, Stanford, material science and engineering
Salutatorian—Thomas Papageorge, 4.6, Georgia Tech, mathematics
Lassiter (Thursday, 2:30 pm., KSU)
Valedictorian—Kevin Barnard Goshay, 4.793, Harvard, applied mathematics
Salutatorian—Dennis Gregory Goldenberg, 4.759, Georgia Tech, mathematics
Pope (Friday, 7 p.m., KSU)
Valedictorians—Nicole Yoojin Kang, 4.783, Georgia Tech, biology; and Edward Charles Kokan, 4.783, Georgia Tech, aerospace engineering
Salutatorian—Karen Sizhe Li, 4.75, Georgia Tech, biomedical engineering
Sprayberry (Saturday, 7 p.m., KSU)
Valedictorians—Yllona Maria Coronado, 4.656, Georgia Tech, biomedical engineering; and Anusha Kayastha, 4.656, Georgia Tech, neuroscience
Salutatorians—Samuel August Knobbe, 4.563, Georgia Tech, chemical engineering; and Matthew Robert Starker, 4.563, University of Georgia, finance
Walton (Friday, 10 a.m., KSU)
Valedictorian—William Ellsworth, 4.839, Stanford
Salutatorian—Daniel Shu, 4.803, Vanderbilt
Wheeler (Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Wildcat Arena)
Valedictorian—Rucha Gharpure, 4.742, Cornell, computer science
Salutatorian—Keshav Shenoy, 4.727, Georgia Tech
The entire group of East Cobb valedictorians and salutatorians is shown in the slideshow below.
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