Pasco Schools Reschedule Dates, Locations Of Graduations

PASCO COUNTY, FL — After learning that the Yuengling Center at the University of South Florida is unable to hold the delayed graduations planned in August for Pasco County’s graduating seniors, an alternative plan has been developed to celebrate the Class of 2020.

In-person graduation ceremonies have been scheduled from July 17 through July 31, with most of the ceremonies taking place outdoors in the schools’ stadiums.

At each ceremony, the graduates will be allowed to bring two guests, and each group of three (graduate and two guests) will be seated together on the field at a safe distance from other graduates and their guests.

The plan makes it possible for graduating seniors to experience the ceremony surrounded by classmates and family, and to be individually recognized while receiving their diplomas.

After the regularly scheduled graduations at the Yuengling Center in June were cancelled due to health and safety concerns, graduates were honored with a virtual graduation in June on the same date and time that their graduation would have occurred. The virtual ceremonies included prerecorded speeches by their principals and selected classmates. After a rendition of "Pomp and Circumstance" recorded individually on Zoom by musicians from around the school district, the graduates were individually honored and their pictures were shown as their names were called.

In an effort to provide an in-person graduation, the school district rescheduled graduations at the Yuengling Center at a later date in August.

The new graduation dates, times, and locations are listed below:

Friday, July 17

Fivay High School

7:30 p.m. at Fivay High School Stadium

Zephyrhills High School

7:30 p.m. at Zephyrhills High School Stadium

Wesley Chapel High School

7:30 p.m. at Wesley Chapel High School Stadium

Saturday, July 18

Land O’ Lakes High School

8 p.m. at Land O' Lakes High School Stadium

Monday, July 20

Pasco eSchool

7:30 p.m. at Crews Lake Middle School's cafeteria

Wednesday, July 22

Sun Lake High School

8:30 a.m. at Sun Lake High School Stadium

Wendell Krinn Technical High School

6 p.m. at the Wendell Krinn Technical High School gymnasium

Friday, July 24

Cypress Creek High School

7:30 p.m. at Cypress Creek High School Stadium

J.W. Mitchell High School

7:30 p.m. at J.W. Mitchell High School Stadium

Pasco High School

7:30 p.m. at Pasco High School Stadium

Saturday, July 25

Gulf High School

9 a.m. at J.W. Mitchell Stadium

Wednesday, July 29

Marchman Technical College

7:30 p.m. at the the Wendell Krinn Technical High School Stadium

Friday, July 31

River Ridge High School

7:30 p.m. at the River Ridge High School Stadium

Anclote High School

7:30 p.m. at the Anclote High School Stadium

Hudson High School

7:30 p.m. at the Hudson High School Stadium

Wiregrass Ranch High School

7:30 p.m. at the Wiregrass Ranch High School Stadium