CPS commencement exercises are Friday/Saturday in Columbia

By Brian Hauswirth
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About 1,400 Columbia Public Schools (CPS) students will earn their diplomas Friday and Saturday at four ceremonies.

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Columbia’s Hickman high school (file photo courtesy of CPS’ website)

What we know: 58 Douglass high school students graduate Friday morning at 10 at Missouri Theatre downtown and 477 Hickman students graduate at 6 pm Friday at Mizzou Arena. Battle’s 345 graduates earn their diplomas Saturday morning at 11 at Mizzou Arena, and 513 Rock Bridge students graduate at 4 pm tomorrow at Mizzou Arena.

You can expect heavy traffic around Mizzou Arena this evening and much of Saturday.