After 12 years of education, memories and growth, the class of 2025 made their way down the various halls of Wareham Elementary, Middle and High School one last time.

Students strutted down the halls in shiny blue graduation gowns Thursday, June 5 to say goodbye to the schools they called home. Students of all grades took time away from class to give out handmade signs and high-fives to the seniors. 

Jailyn Luicer and Makayla Pina joined in with peers jumping from school to school. The pair said the heat made the visits exhausting, but they had fun. 

Luicer started her time in the district in eighth grade and said that the experience of walking the halls was uncanny.

"I was that little and it doesn't feel like it was that long ago," she said. 

As they waved to the kids who will one day don a cap and gown and graduate, Luicer said she would go back and tell her younger self not to rush through school. 

"It was fast. I'm just amazed at the fact that me and my classmates made it here," she said.

Pina has been in the district since she was in kindergarten and said she expected the schools to look smaller than they did. 

"It was kind of nostalgic but different at the same time," Pina said. "The middle and elementary schools looked so different from when I used to go there."

Seniors did not walk through the elementary schools they attended as the current Wareham Elementary School was built in 2022. However, that didn't stop them from reminiscing on their early educational years. 

The elementary students were, "adorable," Pina said. She said that if she were that small again she would share encouraging words with herself.

"I would say to always have faith in myself," she said.

Administrative Assistant Sandra Munson was the face that many students saw when they walked through the doors every morning. Emotions were high as she cheered for the kids she watched grow up. 

"I'm sad, but they have to move on to the next chapter," Munson said.

As she hugged, high-fived and waved to the graduates, she said the students are what make her not want to retire. 

"I just love the kids," she said.