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Mandeville (May 15) - The Cross Keys High School Alumni Association, has launched an ambitious and deeply meaningful scholarship program to commemorate alma mater’s 50th anniversary: The Fifty for Fifty Scholarship Initiative, designed to support and inspire the next generation of leaders, support memory, commemorate family legacy and write the history of our community. The initiative will ultimately provide 50 scholarships to students, with an initial rollout of 11 scholarships valued at...

As Cross Keys High School approaches its 50th anniversary, we pause to reflect on the leadership that has guided the institution through five decades of growth, challenge, and achievement. We begin with a conversation with Mr. Caleb Walters, the school’s founding principal (1976–1990), whose vision helped establish the culture of discipline, aspiration, and community that defined the early years of Cross Keys. We also acknowledge the principals who have carried that legacy forward—Mr....

Caleb Walters: First Principal, 1976 – 1990 Eye-level view of a group of alumni engaging in conversation at a reunion event For fifty years, Cross Keys High School has shaped generations of students through a powerful blend of discipline, belonging, academic rigor, and community spirit. Across the decades—whether in the earliest years of the 1970s, the strong traditions of the 1980s, or the evolving culture of the 2000s—past students consistently recall an atmosphere marked by order, respect,...