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Four Area Students to Participate in Homeschool Graduation 2025

Pictured (l to r): Hom school seniors Hannah Hill and Susanna Neal set to graduate May 2025.

The Homeschool Roster Homeschool Graduation 2025 will be held on Saturday, May 24, 2025, at the Hardeman County Arts Center in Bolivar and four area home school students will participate in the ceremony. Hannah Hill, Susanna Neal, and Ava Rhymer of Bolivar, and Lexy Staggs of Hornsby, will graduate from HomeLife Academy, an umbrella school based in Jackson, Tennessee. They will join 11 other students for the Class of 2025 graduation ceremony.

Pictured (l to r): Home school seniors Lexy Staggs and Ava Rhymer set to graduate May 2025.

The commencement speaker for the Homeschool Graduation 2025 is Haley Hysmith, a COMPLETE Coach with tnAchieves. She serves Madison and surrounding counties by working closely with Jackson State Community College and TCAT Jackson. In her role, she helps support high school seniors in their transition from high school to college. Commencement speakers from previous years include Bolivar City Councilman Chris Williams (2024); Colonel Neal Certain USAF, Retired and FedEx Pilot, Retired (2022); and Caleb Stallings, a home school graduate (2021).

You may read more about the Hardeman County home school graduates as well as the other students participating in the graduation ceremony. They share about what it was like to home school, which includes benefits and challenges; favorite home school memories; advice to home school students and their parents; their future plans; and their West Tennessee favorites. Reading what they shared gives good insight into home school, which may be of interest to families considering the education option.

Homeschool Roster Homeschool Graduation Class of 2025

Hannah Hill shares what is was like to be homeschooled. { read more }

Susanna Neal shares what is was like to be homeschooled. {read more }

Ava Rhymer shares what is was like to be homeschooled. { read more }

Lexy Staggs shares what is was like to be homeschooled. { read more }

Along with coordinating field trips each school year, Homeschool Roster hosts a prom and graduation for home school students across West Tennessee. On Friday, May 9, 2025, “An Enchanted Forest” – A Homeschool Prom 2025 was held at Robin’s Nest Event Venue in Toone, with more than 200 people in attendance.


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