At the start of the school year, Jesse Bethel High School had just 156 seniors on track to graduate.
But by Thursday night, that number had tripled.
“This evening, seated before you are 457 seniors,” Principal Lloyd Cartwright said to the tumultuous applause of students and parents.
Among the reasons for the larger graduating class were reforms the Vallejo City Unified School District implemented this year, aimed in part at reducing the district’s high dropout rate.
via Emotional ceremony marks Bethel High graduation in Vallejo.