Key West High School’s Class of 2025 packed the bleachers at the new and improved Tommy Roberts Memorial Stadium for the May 30 graduation ceremony.
The class finished eighth grade online in the throes of the COVID pandemic, then started high school in person but in still-uncertain times. On May 30, a sea of red and white mortar boards filled the air, as more than 200 graduating seniors celebrated the bittersweet end of their high school careers.
In Conch tradition, the young men processed into the ceremony from one side of the football field wearing red graduation caps and gowns, while the young women, in white caps and gowns, mirrored them from the other side, the class meeting in the bleachers while the marching band played the traditional “Pomp & Circumstance.”
Valedictorian Matthew Robertson and salutatorian Neslihan “Neslo” Atilla addressed their classmates before the 200-plus diplomas were distributed.
