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A Houston-area high school has a graduating class with 13 valedictorians

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The category of 2022 shattered final yr’s file of 9 graduates with good 5.0 GPA’s.

HOUSTON — They are saying data are supposed to be damaged and at Bellaire Excessive College, boy do they imagine it. 

“That is loopy! That is unparalleled proper,” stated senior Collin Crockett. “I am amazed I am part of it.”

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Final yr there have been 9 valedictorians at Bellaire Excessive. That was a Houston ISD file. This yr there’s a record-breaking 13 valedictorians.

‘Nothing in need of superb’ | 9 Bellaire Excessive College seniors graduating with 5.0 GPA

“Since freshman yr, it is all the time been a objective, all the time a dream,” stated senior Owen Zheng. 

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That dream is now a actuality now Owen. He is one among 13 with good 5.0 GPAs. 

However their journeys getting up to now have been removed from good. 

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“There have been numerous challenges that I needed to get by way of,” stated senior Sophia Hernandez. 

“The pandemic was actually onerous as a result of we went digital fully,” stated senior Maggie Schwierking. “It was actually onerous to remain motivated in school after we had been at house in our pajamas on the opposite facet of the display screen.”

By some means they tailored and thrived. 

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“It speaks to a resilience one cannot educate,” stated HISD Superintendent Millard House II.

“Not many individuals can say a pandemic affected their highschool expertise and so they nonetheless received an ideal GPA,” stated Hernandez. 

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Bellaire Excessive’s Class of 2022 are rivals that changed into associates and shattered data within the course of.

“We’re 13 valedictorians, everybody all the time serving to one another,” stated Zheng. “We got here out stronger.”

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