Congratulations to the Class of 2012!

We congratulate our Catholic high schools for the amazing efforts to support, nurture and inspire our future faith-filled leaders.

This year, we celebrated the Inaugural Commencement Ceremony held on June 2nd for the 16 graduates from Seton Catholic College Preparatory High School in Vancouver, WA.

We honor 1,456 graduates from ten out of our eleven Catholic high schools with a combined high school graduation rate of 99.5%! BRAVO!

The rest of the good news...

• 72 graduates are Fulcrum Foundation scholarship recipients
• 119 graduates will be attending community college
• 1,312 graduates will be attending a 4-year university
• 407 graduates will be attending a 4-year Catholic university
• 10 graduates will be entering the workforce

Next year, we happily await the first Graduating Class of 2013 for Pope John Paul II High School in Lacey, WA.

Please read "A Message and Blessing for Grads" by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain posted in the May 24, 2012 edition of The Catholic Northwest Progress.