{"id":63169,"date":"2023-06-20T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-high-school-graduates-fill-up-showare-center-photos\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T23:33:00","slug":"kent-high-school-graduates-fill-up-showare-center-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-high-school-graduates-fill-up-showare-center-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent high school graduates fill up ShoWare Center | Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kentwood, Kent-Meridian, Kentlake and Kentridge high schools each had graduation on Saturday, June 17 at the accesso ShoWare Center in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>Kentwood drew the 8:30 a.m. slot followed by Kent-Meridian at 12:30 p.m., Kentlake at 4:30 p.m. and Kentridge at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Kentridge had 408 graduates, Kent-Meridian 377, Kentwood 362 and Kentlake 310, according to the Kent School District.<\/p>\n<p>Kentwood&rsquo;s valedictorians included Saveria V. Avantaggio, Sehaj Dhillon, Nguyen B. Tran, Hope C. Villarreal and Autymn L. Raap.<\/p>\n<p>Kent-Meridian had a lone valedictorian in Aicha Toure.<\/p>\n<p>Valedictorians for Kentlake were Claire Ryan, Horia Selay, Bao Chau Tran and Ashley Wansitler.<\/p>\n<p>Kentridge&rsquo;s valedictorians were Jonathan Chen, Ashley Keatts, Breanna Newburn, Trevor Tom, Anthony Covello, Rebecca Kinstle, Jennifer Nguyen, Tiffany Do, Nathan Li and Tony Punnacherry.<\/p>\n<p>The school district&rsquo;s iGrad graduates were part of the Kent-Meridian ceremony. The Kent Laboratory Academy graduation was June 15 at the Kent-Meridian gym. The Outreach Program (TOP) had its ceremony June 8 at the Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center. The Kent Virtual Academy will graduate June 22 at the Kent-Meridian Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of &lsquo;23: Kentwood, Kent-Meridian, Kentlake and Kentridge ceremonies were June 17 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":63170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63169"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}