The Adair County High School Class of 2024 will hold its commencement exercises on Friday, May 24, 2024 at 7:00pmCT in the John Burr Memorial Gymnasium. Each senior has been given 10 tickets for their guests to attend. All guests who are age four and older must have a ticket to enter. Doors will open at 6:00pmCT.

In addition to remarks from the Senior Class Officers, the keynote address will be delivered by the Honorable Pamela Hoots, Mayor of the City of Columbia. The Adair County High School Choir will be performing Butterfly Fly Away along with the National Anthem and the Adair County High School Band will be performing Too Beautiful for Words along with Pomp and Circumstance as the graduates enter. The Adair County High School Cadet Corps will be presenting the colors.

The class of 2024 is made up of 173 students. Eighty-eight students in the class have achieved a Latin honor academic recognition. Twenty students have earned a Summa Cum Laude designation (weighted GPA of 4.0 or greater), 36 students have earned a Magna Cum Laude designation (weighted GPA of 3.5 to 3.99), and 32 students have earned a Cum Laude designation (weighted GPA of 3.0 to 3.49).

Additionally, 145 students in the graduating class have earned the designation of Postsecondary Ready. Postsecondary Ready students have met requirements established by the Kentucky Department of Education indicating they are ready to successfully transition to their next step after high school. Eighty-three of these students have met the requirements for both Academic Readiness and Career Readiness, 27 students have met the requirements for Academic Readiness, and 35 students have met the requirements for Career Readiness.

The motto for the Class of 2024 is, "Ever Forward." The class chose Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield as the class song, the yellow poppy as the class flower, and red, white, and blue as the class colors.

Story from Chad Parnell, ACHS Principal