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Portraits of Jackson Hole Community School graduates adorn the windows above the commencement ceremony Friday at the Center for the Arts. BRADLY J. BONER / NEWS&GUIDE
If you were anywhere near the Center for the Arts, you couldnât miss the Jackson Hole Community School graduation.
Arranged on the lawn were 26 yard signs, each bearing a seniorâs smiling face. The same faces hung in the windows above the centerâs amphitheater, the homages to the graduates ringing the proceeding.
Families gathered in the grass, lounged in low-slung lawn chairs. Teachers sat on blankets and former graduates gathered to celebrate their friends.
Twenty-eight students from Teton County made the Presidentâs Honor Roll during the 2020 fall semester at the University of Wyoming.
To qualify, students must earn a 4.0 GPA and be enrolled in 12 credit hours that use letter grading.
Local students on the list are
Zachary Ward, of Alta;
Kasen C. Arriola, Kyler Marvin Arriola, Paige Asbell, Brian P. Baker, Kyle Matthew Brimeyer, Elizabeth Chambers, Ashley Corona-Tzompa, Clara Daniele Delahaye, Crispin J. Dippel, Samantha Espinoza, Mark Robles Ford, Nicholas Fredricks, Caden Walker Garland, Sarah K. Greger, Gerald E. Henderson, Broderick C. Hills, Don
ald Jackson II, Jacob N. Kravetsky, Riley S. Liljestrom, John C. Mercer, Caroline Monroe, Jamison L. Peacock, Hannah L. Rigsby, Parker M. Rowe and
These Are 50 of the Best Private High Schools in America
By Lisa Borten, Stacker News
On 2/3/21 at 8:00 PM EST
America s private high schools opened long before their public counterparts and even before the United States was first established. The Roman Catholic Church in the 1700s started private schools in Florida and Louisiana while in New York (a former Dutch colony called New Amsterdam), the Dutch West India Company and Dutch Reformed Church set up private schools that filled the void left by the colonies lack of an education system.
That changed in the 1840s when the U.S. instituted a uniform public school system. To stay relevant, private schools changed from marketing themselves as the only option to portraying their education as the best option. To this day, private high schools have positioned themselves as fast-tracks to admittance into elite universities. Faced with the rigorous demands of the highly competitive college admissions process and increased pressure