Kudos to the Class of ’26
More than 400 students from North Fort Myers High School walked across the stage on May 17, capping their high school careers and stepping into the next chapter of their life.
North Fort Myers High School Principal Debbie Diggs said graduation was absolutely fantastic for the 436 seniors.
“The program was flawlessly facilitated, and our seniors were excited, thankful, and just a joy to be around,” said Diggs of her last graduation as principal before retiring on July 1.
Diggs described the 2025 class as hard-working, driven, collaborative, involved, caring and just overall, great human beings.
“Collectively, our 436 seniors have an average weighted GPA of 4.06; 236 kids have a GPA above a 4.0, that’s over half, 99 of them have earned a 5.0 or higher, that’s over 20% of the class, and two students earned a 6.0 or higher,” Diggs said
The highest grade point average was earned by Katrina Placencia who earned a 6.14.
During the high school’s senior awards night $201,000 was awarded in scholarships.
“This doesn’t include any that students are getting directly from their college, or private scholarship. With all of those, including Bright Futures, it would be in the millions,” Diggs said.
Almost all of the seniors in the 2025 class took at least one AICE course during their high school career.
“Of the graduating class, 96 of our seniors have already earned their Cambridge AICE diploma with several others who we are confident will after this final round of AICE exams. Of those 96, 45, so again over half, achieved a scholar, merit or distinction award, meaning multiple higher scores, and four students earned an AICE Diploma of Distinction, which represents super high scores. This ranks North 21st for all high schools in the Entire North American Region, that’s all of the US and Canada, for AICE Diplomas,” Diggs said.
In addition, 317 students earned some kind of acceleration credit from an industry certification, passing an AICE, or AP exam and, or getting a C or higher in a college dual enrollment course, she said.
This hardworking group of seniors also included students, 11, who earned their college AA degree prior to earning their high school diploma. In addition, collectively, the senior class logged more than 13,000 community service hours while in high school.
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