Rogers High School held their  commencement ceremony Friday May 22, 2009 at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville. Rogers High School had the largest class in Northwest Arkansas with 756 students. Next year the graduates will be split between the two Rogers’ high schools. The graduating class had 148 honor graduates with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4 point system. The graduates garnered $4,950,375 in scholarships. Of those, $340,000 were community scholarships. Rogers High School student Michael Tibbs received a $403,000 scholarship to the U.S. Air Force Academy. The RHS 2009 class motto is ” Behind us are memories, beside us are friends. Before us are dreams that will never end.”