LIVESTREAM EVENT A link will be available on morning of Commencement
Poly Prep’s 167th Commencement Ceremony
Celebrating the Class of 2024
Friday, June 14 at 10:00 AM
Steinberg Athletic Complex (football field)
Dyker Heights Campus
A link to livestream event will be available on the morning of Commencement.
Graduates, Families, Faculty, Staff, and Trustees
See below for more details on what you need to know, schedules, and more.
Printable Processional Schedule
Post Commencement: An email with the links to the professional photos and video will be sent to the Class of 2024 graduates and families in the last week of June.
NOTE: In case of thunderstorms, we will move the event indoors to the Chapel; each family will be allowed 4 ticketed guests. Tickets will be available for pickup. We are keeping a close eye on the weather and will send detailed updates if the ceremony moves indoors.
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Arrival and breakfast
8:45 AM – 9:15 AM Robe up (graduates)
9:15 AM – 9:40 AM Formation of processional line, head of the line at the connecting door to the Novogratz building, in order of appointment. Lists will be posted to aid in lining up.
Procession lineup order/locations:
9:40 AM Procession begins – Through the Novogratz lobby, out to and through the walkway between the baseball and softball fields to the Steinberg Athletic Complex field. (football field).
Procession is by pairs. Faculty seating flanks the left and right sides of the dais, facing out to the graduates. At the field, you’ll go up the center aisle and split, with those on the left going to the left section and those on the right to the right section of seats
Faculty/Staff/Trustee parents with grads are invited to join John Rankin, trustees, and administrators onstage to step forward at the appropriate time to hand off their graduate’s diploma. In terms of lineup, you and other faculty/staff/parents of graduates will line up alphabetically behind the division heads, at the head of the faculty, and follow the group to the dais seating.