Where Marblehead High School's Class of 2026 is headed

On Friday, June 5, Marblehead High School's 183 seniors will gather on Piper Field, behind the school at 2 Humphrey St., to graduate at 6 p.m.; if it rains, the ceremony moves inside to the field house. At the head of the class are valedictorian Joy Meshulam and salutatorian Ian Chemel, with class president William Cruikshank, vice president Owen Dulac, secretary Abdullah Al Janabi and treasurer Samara Dosch. For most of them, the night caps a journey that began within a few miles of that same field — and come fall, the class scatters.

They are bound for big state universities and small liberal-arts colleges, for art and music schools, for the Naval Academy and the Army. A few are skipping the dorm altogether — for a job, a gap year or a postgraduate year before whatever comes next.

They are also a class shaped by disruption. They started high school in masks and remote classrooms, lost weeks of senior year to the 2024 teachers strike, came of age as schools confronted a student mental-health crisis and are graduating just as artificial intelligence upends what a classroom is for. They got here anyway.

The map below plots every destination the class reported. Search it, filter it by the kind of path or switch on the lines that run back to a single small town on the North Shore.