The Cobb County School District on Wednesday announced the Class of 2026 valedictorians and salutatorians.
Overall, the valedictorians in the Cobb school district combined for an average grade-point average of 4.717, with salutatorians at 4.50.
The highest GPAs are all at Campbell High School, which has three valedictorians—Krishna Anand, Amulya Patil and Livia Ross, with 4.848 scores.
Among East Cobb high schools, Sprayberry valedictorian Peyton Pace has the highest GPA, at 4.813.
Sixteen of the vals and sals from the Cobb school district are headed to Georgia Tech, with six others bound for the University of Georgia.
Other college destinations for this year’s vals and sals are Stanford University, Duke University, Princeton University, Columbia University, Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania, the California Institute of Technology, and the United States Air Force Academy.
What follows are the vals and sals from the six East Cobb high schools, their GPAs, college choices and intended majors. For the full list of vals and sals in the Cobb school district, click here.
Kell High School
Valedictorian— Juan Diego Jimenez Ramirez, 4.750, Rice University, pre-med
Salutatorian—Dylan Brostoff, 4.507, UGA, pre-dentistry
Lassiter High School
Valedictorian—Evan Taylor Buchanan, 4.790, Georgia Tech, aerospace engineering
Salutatorian—Chloe Elizabeth Cummings, 4.729, UGA, business
Pope High School
Valedictorian—Kenneth Kim, 4.778, Duke University, biology
Salutatorian—Malachy O’Connor, 4.776, Georgia Tech, computer science
Sprayberry High School
Valedictorian—Peyton Pace, 4.813, Emory University, neuroscience
Salutatorian—Sebastian Ezqueda, 4.646, Georgia Tech, computer science
Walton High School
Valedictorian—Dev Patel, 4.808, Georgia Tech, computer science
Salutatorian—Jerry Xu, 4.803, Princeton University, classics or economics
Wheeler High School
Valedictorian—Vidya Sinha, 4.794, Stanford University, computer science
Salutatorians—Devang Doshi, 4.779, Georgia Tech, computer science
Click the middle button below to view the photo gallery of all the East Cobb vals and sals.
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