The DeKalb County School District has announced its valedictorians and salutatorians, the high school seniors who earned the highest grade-point averages across the district.

The valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, are listed below. Some schools have two sets of honorees, as magnet programs have individual valedictorians.

Arabia Mountain High School

Magnet – Danait Issac

Sanaejah Reid

Resident – Robyn Nelson

Diamond Mayeba

Cedar Grove High School

Mackenzie Laws

Kyla McKoy

Chamblee High School

Magnet – Nevin Aresh

Md Alam

Resident – Hattie Carter

Rachael Jackson

Clarkston High School

Tewodros Fisseha

Najma Noor

Columbia High School

Magnet – Desiree Bailey

Nikita Wood

Resident – Kari Annis

Joshua Smith

Cross Keys High School

Kristy Nguyen

Kitty Leung

DeKalb Early College Academy

Keianna Moyer

Genesis Weever

DeKalb School of Arts

Lillian Nittler

Nathaniel Ellis

Druid Hills High School

Theodore Shepherd

James Orson

Dunwoody High School

Sophia Gavalas

Justin Jasper

Lakeside High School

Hanna Baniassad

Jared Chen

Lithonia High School

Genevieve Montgomery

Tamaradoye Oki

Martin Luther King Jr. High School

Isabella Escobar

Khemyatte Green

McNair High School

Abdoul Diallo

Kamore Campbell

Miller Grove High School

Dominique Coney

Yasmin Roble

Redan High School

Jahmon Hubbard

Jordan McDaniel

Southwest DeKalb High Schoo

Magnet – Nyla Weatherington

Ida Faburay

Resident – Diovanni Johnson

Jalen Minor

Stephenson High School

Brianna Ambler

Elijah Bethea

Stone Mountain High School

Salih Numan

Amina Jeylani

Tapestry Charter

Elaina Aldrich

Magdalen O’Connell

Towers High School

Paloma Martinez

Davisha Cyrus

Tucker High School

Luma Younis

Bidhya Pradhan

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