Some 132 eighth-grade students at Mossdale Elementary School took that next step on Tuesday.
By receiving their promotion certificates, they now gear up for four years of high school. Many will be attending Lathrop High in the next few months.
This Class of 2015 was one of largest groups to date for the Promotion Ceremony of the Manteca Unified School District, according to Principal Susan Sanders.
She praised the classmates for re-instituting Student Council led by president Haley Mathews and vice president Valerie Villanueva.
The top academic students were Mandeep Garcha, Joselyn Hurtado, Matthew Julien and Alyssa Remonida.
Hurtado took a different road from most, having gone to several schools including Joseph Widmer Elementary School two years earlier while moving to the area from San Jose. “It’s been a long drive with bumps and cracks along the way but we made it,” she said.
Added Julien: “Each of us is ready for the next step – today would be a good day to ask for money.”
He, Garcha, Hurtado and Remonida were joined by Sarah Oltjentbruns, Sherity Timbreza, Candace Yu, Alondra Galvez Buenrostro, Haley Mathews, and Aveleen Kaur as Mossdale 4.0 (grade point average) students.
Galvez Buenrostro, Sherity Timbreza, Graciella Velasco and Wendy Fabian were recipients of the MUSD Awards.
Receiving their promotional certificates were the following: Soraiya Abbasi, Jazmine Aguilar, Krystal Alegre Tempra, Tala Alkhatib, Isaiah Alonso, Ardon Rick Aragon, Reina Archuleta, Julia Armendariz, Jurel Atengco, Gabriel Avila, Wesly Barayuga, Alyssa Barragan Reeves, Christian Bedolla Garcia, Ariana Belvine, Sukhdev Bhandal, Nicolas Bonilla, Tyler Brintley, Senida Bun, Brandon Carroll, Raylen Carter, Shayla Casson, Manuel Castuera, Christina Chavez, Alona Cibelli Sanford, Jordan Corner, Keith Louise Cortez, Ana De La Garza, Ashely Del Barrio, Sabina Del Toro, Erielle DeLaCruz, Jordan Doyle, Hannah Eiras.
Lena Elsharif, Travis Evans, Mark Fabian, Raymond Favila, Leilani Flores, Tristan Flores, Isabella Furtado, Jacob Daniel Gallo, Alondra Galvez Buenrostro, Mandeep Garcha, Zitlaly Garcia, Luis Gutierrez, Janessa Guzman, Francisco Guzman, Hariena Haile, Jeffrey Hargreaves, Joshua Haynes, Katelynn Hernandez, Elizabeth Hernandez, William Christopher Herrador, Gabriel Hoban, Joselyn Hurtado Garcia, Devin Huynh, Kayla Idemne, Jerico Imperial, Lizardo Infante, Ashley John, Jessica Jones, Jacqueline Jones.
Janae Jovero, Maximillan Juan, Matthew Julien, Jerold Donald Juvida, Harsharan Kaur, Avleen Kaur, Iyana Knight, Shaun Kumar, Vincent Laoeng, Carlos Leon, Precious Lewis, Dante Lopez, Divine Loto, Isis Katherine Loudd Payton, Angelique Marino, Nicholas Masini, Kaysey Moneth Matela, Haley Mathews, Jaylin McCain, Diamond McCarthy, Jasmine McDonald, Julia Miggins Gonzalez, Zakary Miles, Marcos Mota, Patricia Nguyen, Patrick Nisperos, Sarah Oltjenbruns, Angeliko Jian Orlino, Tristan Perlas, Antonio Pitts Nevarez, Chanelle Prado.
Jason Prasad, Michael Ramos Contreras, Logan Ramos Pepin, Alyssa Remonida, Sebastian Rizo, Siro Sanchez, Gabriela Santos, Omar Sayah, Ronnie Sengphrachanh, Sean Michael Sesante, Farhan Shams, Karandeep Singh, Pradhjot Singh, Sehaj Singh, Mayra Solorzano, Sasha Stratos, Brianna Jasmin Tabofunda, Sukhjot Thind, Sherity Timbreza, Elizah Timbreza, Seantel Ryeine Tirado, Savannah Torres O’Callaghan, Alexis Treat, Noah Urbina Thierry, Shayla Valdez Galindo, Graciella Velasco, Valerie Villanueva, Ethan Ryan Villanueva, Natalie Villasenor, Michael Wallace, Hunter Weatherford, Jing Yi Yang, Candace Yu and Juan Zavala.
