Moving Up Ceremony 2023

A student performs the Black National Anthem at the 2023 Moving Up Ceremony at AHES.

We were delighted to host Superintendent Joseph Hochreiter at his first Moving Up Ceremony in the City School District of Albany on Thursday.

And while the new administrator was our guest of honor, it was Devon Pendergrass – who brought the audience to tears when he sang the Black National Anthem for his classmates – and each and every member of the fifth-grade class who were the stars of the day!

Good luck to our newest middle schoolers – we will miss you but are confident you will use what you learned at Arbor Hill to be successful in all that you do!


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