WCDS Holds Graduation for the Class of 2024
Westchester Country Day School will hold its 53rd graduation ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 1, at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in High Point.
The 32 graduates in the Class of 2024 achieved 100 percent college acceptance and collectively were offered more than $5 million in college scholarships.
Watch the Graduation Ceremony
Top Graduates
 | Valedictorian Isabella Claire Reid, daughter of Mr. Chris and Mrs. Ashley Reid of Lexington, will attend Duke University. She plans to study neuroscience. |
 | Salutatorian Margaret (Maggie) Casey O'Keeffe, daughter of Dr. Michael and Mrs. Amy O'Keeffe of High Point, will attend North Carolina State University, where she plans to study life sciences (pre-medicine). |
Class of 2024
The 32 graduates of Westchester’s Class of 2024 are as follows:
| Mallory Theresa Atkinson Joshua Dale Bayne Davis Aidan Todd Beck Charles Andrew Blair Lyndon Carroll Briggs Emilie Grace Carey Lauren Olivia Cockrum Benjamin Stoermer Daniel Carson Clifton Daniel Malcolm Xavier Edwards Morgan Rosa Elliott William Finnegan Fleming Covington Ann Hauser Benjamin Thomas Hunsberger Aleeza Iqbal Emma Abigail Keever | Ava Grace Klein Katherine Grace Lavelle Jose Antonio Lopez Elizabeth Godwin Marsh Hannah Elizabeth Melgar Olivia Grace Mueller Margaret Casey O’Keeffe Isabella Claire Reid Jaden Jene Richardson William Leon Rives Jalen Miles Umstead Benedict Douglas Tom Van Dessel William Tate Vogler Katherine Floriene Walter Kaytlin Abigail Williamson Riley Colette Yanez |
About the WCDS Commencement Exercises
Westchester will celebrate the Class of 2024 with a Graduation Luncheon at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, May 31, at High Point Country Club. The luncheon is by invitation only for graduates, their guests, and school faculty and staff. The alumni speaker for this year's luncheon is Jamie Collins '90.
The graduation ceremony begins at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 1, at Wesley Memorial Methodist Church. It is open to Westchester faculty, parents, students, alumni, and guests of the graduates. The ceremony can be viewed via livestream on YouTube.
Westchester’s ceremony includes traditions that are unique to the school’s recognition of graduates, including a bagpipe processional and personalized faculty tribute speeches given on behalf of the graduates as they come forward to receive their diplomas.
The marshals representing the junior class are Thomas Brinson, Chase Hesling, Claire Neal, Sutton Scott and Cooper Singer.
