Paradise High School Seniors Soared

6/14/2019 (Permalink)

After the devastation of the Camp Fire that ravished their hometown, it would be understandable if the seniors from Paradise High School quietly collected their diplomas without any great fanfare.  So much attention has been focused on their community and all that they have lost, it is wonderful to hear that many of those students thrived during their senior year, in spite of all they had to go through in the past seven months.

Of the 980 students at the school, approximately 900 lost their homes.  Yet the school recorded the second-highest math scores in the country.  The seven valedictorians this year took at least eight college-level classes each and earned A's in all of them.  And the school boasts the ONLY National Merit Scholar in Northern California this year.

One of the seniors was quoted as saying, "The fire could burn just about every physical object under the sun, but it couldn't touch the connections we have built.  We will always carry the name and spirit of Paradise with us."  

SERVPRO of Vacaville was grateful to be offered the opportunity to help in the clean-up of the Paradise area and is continually humbled and impressed by the resilience and strength of its residents.