RICHTON PARK, In poor health. – For the twelfth consecutive time, graduates from at Southland Faculty Prep Constitution Excessive College have all been supplied a university scholarship.
This comes as households and school members gathered to provide them a send-off earlier than their subsequent chapter in life.
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The Harris Theater was filled with household and family members celebrating the following technology of pros at Southland’s 2025 commencement ceremony.
Geraldine Franklin wiped away tears as she cheered on her granddaughter Julia, the senior class president.
“There’s a stigma pondering that Black college students can’t obtain, however while you see a faculty with 100% college students, majority Black, going to college, high universities, it warms my coronary heart,” Franklin mentioned.
All 145 seniors within the Class of 2025 are college-bound, with scholarship gives totaling greater than $52 million collectively.
Forty p.c obtained full-ride scholarships, and at the very least two college students had been supplied greater than $1 million every from high universities.
One graduate spoke candidly about his journey.
“I used to be a nasty child, did a number of performing up. Southland actually formed me up,” one scholar mentioned.
Southland Faculty Prep CEO Blondean Davis inspired college students to remain centered.
“You possibly can be taught from any atmosphere, you simply should put forth the hassle. It isn’t a lot lecturers that we’re educating though we train that. It’s the mindset and willpower,” Davis mentioned.
Southland’s graduating seniors have obtained a collective complete of greater than $300 million in scholarship gives.
