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Congratulations, Class of 2025!
Graduation 2025
One-hundred-eighty-three seniors received their Milton Academy diplomas at the school’s commencement exercises on June 6, 2025. Graduation at Milton is a ceremony that carries years of traditions and favorite rituals—formal and informal. In the absence of a traditional valedictorian and salutatorian address, students of the senior class elect their speakers, which assures seniors that they will, at their last Milton gathering, hear from classmates they have chosen. This year’s student body elected Adrienne Fung and Asa Strauss. Delivering the commencement address was alumnus Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, Milton Academy Class of 1987.
Click here to read the speeches, watch the ceremony in its entirety, and view photos taken from graduation day!
News & Events
Student Historians Honored for Exemplary Research
The History and Social Sciences Department recognized students’ outstanding research in U.S. History at the Bisbee Tea and Social Science Forum.
The Bisbee Prize was established to honor Ethan Wyatt Bisbee, a former history faculty member and department chair who retired in 1993 after 40 years of teaching. The Prize was endowed in 2005 through a gift by John Warren, formerly of the history department, and his wife, Laura Warren ’78, former head of Robbins House. Mr. Bisbee passed away in 2021. In 2023, the department added the Social Science Forum to recognize outstanding work in the social sciences.
Persky Awards Honor the Best of Milton Publications
Milton Academy offers its students a tremendous gift: to try myriad new activities and creative pursuits without pressure or fear, said Nicole Acheampong ’13, the speaker at the 46th annual Laurence S. Persky Memorial Awards. The awards honor the best work in student publications each school year.
“I had a lot of hobbies that I took very seriously,” Acheampong said of her time as a Milton student. “I’ve loved dance since I was young and I performed in the dance concert every year, took a dance elective, and was a member of Milton’s first-ever step team—and I did all of that even though I knew I wasn’t that good at dance or step. I did one of the school plays, in which I had the role of an unnamed old lady, who had maybe two lines. I sang in the gospel choir, and was very happy to sing as part of a crowd—definitely not as a soloist.
“I was OK with not excelling at these hobbies,” she continued. “That was one of my early instincts. If there was a creative activity that I admired, that I wanted to immerse myself in and try out, I did it. Not for the sake of being the best at it, but simply so that I could love it up close.”
End-of-the-Year Event Videos & Photos
Below are links to recordings of this year’s end-of-the-year events at Milton Academy’s Upper School.
Graduation Ceremony
Friday June 6, at 9:30 a.m.
Click here to watch a recording of this past event.
Click here for the speeches and photos of the ceremony.
Prize Assembly
Thursday, June 5, at 10:30 a.m.
Click here to watch a recording of this past event
On the Calendar
NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS: As an institution committed to diversity, Milton Academy welcomes the opportunity to admit academically qualified students of any gender, race, color, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, or national or ethnic origins to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally available to its students. It does not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship programs, and athletic or other School-administered activities.
