Concord High School held a commencement ceremony for its Class of 2025 in the school auditorium, where student speakers addressed graduates and school officials presented diplomas.

The event featured multiple student addresses, including remarks by Autumn Williams, and concluded when the principal, speaking from the stage, pronounced the graduates finished and instructed them to move their tassels.

The ceremony opened with remarks stressing growth and community roots. A student speaker (unnamed) told graduates, “Congratulations, spiders. You did it.” Autumn Williams, identified during her remarks as a student speaker, reflected on shared experiences and told classmates, “Once a spider, always a spider.” The principal (unnamed) closed the formal portion by saying, “By the power vested in me by the state of North Carolina ... I now pronounce you graduated. Go Spiders.”

Speeches recalled Concord High School’s history and the role of early schooling in students’ development; one speaker noted the school’s founding year as 1895. Students highlighted participation across extracurriculars and urged classmates to carry forward values learned at the school. Several speakers named specific staff roles and community members who supported students during their time at Concord.

An announcer read the names of graduates as diplomas were presented. The principal explained the traditional moving of the tassel as the symbolic act of changing status from student to graduate and asked graduates to change their tassels from right to left before pronouncing them graduated.

The ceremony followed customary elements of a high school commencement: an invocation of the Pledge of Allegiance, student reflections, name-by-name diploma presentation, and the formal pronouncement conferring graduation. The transcript does not specify the total number of diplomas presented or the date of the ceremony. The event appears to have lasted under an hour, with several student speakers and school staff participating.

Organizers did not present policy changes, funding decisions, motions, or formal actions during the ceremony; the proceedings consisted of speeches, name readings and the conferral of diplomas. Any references in speeches to the school’s history or to specific staff members were presented as personal reflections during the commencement program.