Seniors

Timeline for Seniors 2025:

• November 1, 2025: Senior Meeting, Auditorium/Pan Picture, Gymnasium 8:35am
• November 1, 2025: Senior Pan Picture:  Cost is $25.00 A text is sent, you will receive a notification that you have opted into the gallery (available to view when the photo is ready). When the image is ready, David Banks Studios will send another text for placing an order.
• April 16, 2025, Senior Meeting, Auditorium 8:35am (mandatory)
• TBD: Window opens to pay the graduation fee online.
• TBD: Senior Last Academic Day
• TBD: 9am-3pm Seniors pick up cap and gown/must pay outstanding fines/fees.
• TBD: 9:45-11:30am Graduation rehearsal (mandatory).
• TBD: 11:30am-12:30pm Senior picnic in the stadium
• Ceremony: June 10, 2025 at 7:00pm, 3M Arena at Mariucci
  (1901 4th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455)

• TBD Last day to return honor stole.

• Spectators who require handicap accessible seating need to make their request by TBD on a sign-up sheet in the main office. 

• Spectators who require sign language interpretation need to make their request by TBD on a sign-up sheet in the main office.

• Graduation location, Aldrich Arena, 1850 White Bear Ave, Maplewood, MN 55109

• Cap and gown distribution will be held TBD in the Lecture Hall and Multipurpose Room. Seniors will also turn in Chromebooks and pay any outstanding fines or fees prior to receiving their cap and gown.

•  Graduation location: Mariucci Arena at 1901 4th St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

• Graduation date and time: June 10, 7:00pm at Mariucci.
• Tickets per student: TBD
• The graduation fee (which includes the cap and gown) is NOT paid through Jostens. We will post the link for payment (district payment) after the senior meeting in April, 2025.
•  2025 PHS GRADUATION FEES (link will be posted in April, 2025).
• Payment for honor stoles may be paid prior to rehearsal and the Chromebook return and distribution. Payments taken in the main office between the hours of 7:30am and 3:00pm beginning TBD. The cost of an honor stole is $25.00. Students eligible to receive an honor stole are notified by U. S. mail and Blackboard Connects. The senior honor stole is the property of the student or the stole is eligible for a refund/no later than TBD.

COMMENCEMENT PRACTICE is in the GYMNASIUM, date tbd.
Topics to be covered in the rehearsal include:

• Time to arrive at commencement for line-up.
• Name cards
• Protocols for marching onto the graduation area (place TBD), when to stand and when to sit.
• Procedure for walking on stage to receive your diploma cover.
• Commencement photographer
• Tassels and tossing caps
• Diploma distribution procedure
• The graduation rehearsal will be held in the gymnasium beginning at 9:45am - please be on time.
• The senior picnic will follow the rehearsal.

• Announcements: Students have the option to order graduation announcements through Jostens. These announcements feature our school crest on custom paper. It will also include specific information regarding the date, time and place of your ceremony. Ordering announcements is not required.

• Park Seniors; Class of 2025

• Class Rings & Tags: Proudly display your graduation in timeless fashion with Jostens class rings. Seniors have the opportunity to purchase a customized, commemorative class ring or tag from Jostens.
• Apparel: Show your senior pride with quality senior apparel designed to match your style. Product availability varies by school.
• Photo Cards: Photo cards are used to add personality to announce your graduation. Photo cards add a personal touch to your announcement package.
• The senior cap and gown is NOT purchased through Jostens. Jostens collects height and weight only for fitting purposes. The district pay site will be active in April 2025 for the graduation fee ( which includes the cap and gown).

Class of 2025 – Senior All Night Party

Registration for 2025 Senior All Night Party open, date/time TBD
Location: TBD.

• If Paying Cash or Check - Fill out the registration form and drop it off in the office.
• If Paying Venmo - You must include the following in the notes:
• Student’s full name, parent’s name, email, mailing address, phone # and bus option.
• On Venmo please pay as Friends and Family
• Registration 2025

When you are a graduate of Park High School, graduated seniors will no longer have access to their school provided Google Apps account. Make sure you download/copy the files you want to keep onto another device not owned by the District. After August (every year) there will be no means of retrieving the files. Follow the steps below:

1. Using the device you want to download them to, log onto your Google Drive.
2. Click on the file you want to save and download. (To download multiple files, press Shift or Control ("Command" on a Mac) while clicking other files.)
3. Right-click and select Download.

Note: Dragging a file from Google Drive to your desktop will NOT download it. Be sure to follow the steps above. 

Parents must review their senior's meal account balance to determine what to do with any funds that remain in their student's account after graduation. Be sure to remove any automatic payments made to your student's account. More information can be found here.

Seniors:
Senior Student Meetings will take place in the Park High School auditorium on November 1, 2024 (senior pan photo) and April 16, 2025. If you have questions, please check in the main office.

Senior Meeting Presentation

Class of 2025: Yearbook Senior Pictures and Baby Ads

SENIOR PHOTOS: MUST BE SUBMITTED BY January 6, 2025.
Any senior without a photo, the staff you use the school picture on file. NO Exceptions

Please submit senior photos
TO Jostens directly.

The photos MUST meet the following criteria:

• Vertical head and shoulder photos only (no profile photos)
• No full body photos
• Please keep the photo background simple
• Photo must use portrait alignment-not horizontal
• Color photos only with no black and white or color alterations
• Any props used MUST be approved by the yearbook advisor before you submit

• Photo size requirements for yearbook submission:
  Minimum requirement 3 inches by 2.25 inches aspect ratio (300 dpi min)
  Larger photos may be used, but the yearbook staff has the right to crop larger photos
  No Snapchat filters

• We do NOT encourage taking prints from your photographer and then scanning them. The quality is usually poor. Ask your photographer to submit the electronic image directly. Photo size requirements for yearbook submission

• Senior photos will be submitted directly to Jostens. If you are prompted for an ID, please use the code: 0P45u-ijGQtBL1pzHaKmjnw

• SENIOR PHOTOS – DUE DATE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2024
  These specifications are in place to maintain uniformity throughout the section but allow each student to choose their own photographer. For any senior who does not submit a photo, the school picture on file will be used. If there is no picture on file, then no picture will be included in the yearbook. 
  Questions can be directed to Amy Johnson, Yearbook Advisor at ajohns14@sowashco.org

  BABY/SENIOR RECOGNITION ADS - DUE DATE: DECEMBER 18, 2024

  Recognitions Ads will be available for parents, family members or friends to purchase for the graduating class of 2023. The Ads are purchased directly from Jostens and will be placed in the yearbook. Use the Jostens to make your personalized recognition of your graduating senior:
   https://www.jostens.com/yearbooks/students-and-parents/yearbook-ads

  PURCHASE YOUR BOOK DIRECTLY WITH JOSTENS: 

  https://www.jostens.com/apps/store/productBrowse/1062808/Park-High-School/2024-Yearbook/2023070704180246375/CATALOG_SHOP/ 

Senior Meetings with Counseling Staff/TBD

Park High School (PHS)

6 p.m. | Sunday, June 4, 2023
Aldrich Ice Arena
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