Gallery: Last Day Of School At Eighth Street Elementary School
Third graders EchoGracie Harris, 9, Kailynn Berg, 9, and Braelin McCandless, 9, left to right, cry with their teacher, Rachel Burrage, second from right, on the last day of school as they say goodbye to her before the fifth graders walked out of the school for the last time at Eighth Street Elementary School in Ocala, Fla. on Wednesday, May 26, 2021. The students were crying because their teacher wasn’t coming back next year. [Bruce Ackerman/Ocala Gazette] 2021.
Fifty-nine fifth graders graduated at the school this year and the fifth graders march out of the school has been a tradition for many years on the last day of school at Eighth Street Elementary School.
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