Graduation Time for Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School Class of 2011

's 2011 graduation will take place Thursday, June 2, at 7 p.m. at Constitution Hall. Around 415 students will graduate, according to Chris Orlando, the class of 2011's advisor and a math teacher at the school.

Here's what graduates and their friends and families should know about the graduation:

Students should arrive at Constitution Hall (1776 D Street NW, Washington, D.C.) by 5:45 p.m. Students will report to either the C Street lobby door or the D Street lobby door, depending on the instructions they receive at the graduation rehearsal.

Ticket holders may enter Constitution Hall at the 18th Street entrance beginning at 6:15, and tickets will be required for admittance. A handicapped-accessible entrance is at the D Street lobby of the building.

The doors will close at 6:55, and will not open again until after the processional has been completed, and all graduates are in their seats.

The chartered buses transporting pre-registered graduates, family and friends to Constitution Hall from B-CC High School will leave the school parking lot at 4:30 p.m. The buses will return to B-CC after the graduation from Constitution Hall 30 minutes after the conclusion of the ceremony. 

After the ceremony, graduation attendees can meet graduates at the C or D street entrances to Constitution Hall.

If you are riding Metrorail to the graduation, the Farragut North stop on the Red Line will be your best choice, as it is only a 10-minute walk from Constitution Hall. Exit the Farragut West at the 17th Street exit and walk south on 17th Street for about eight blocks. Once you get to Constitution Hall, head west for one block to enter the building from the 18th Street entrance.

If you are driving to Constitution Hall, two-hour, metered street parking will be limited.

Graduation parking will also be available at two George Washington University parking locations: the Marvin Center Garage on H Street between 21st and 22nd streets, and the University Parking Garage on I Street between 22nd and 23rd streets.

The graduation ceremony will be streamed live, online, through the Constitution Hall website.

There will be no valedictorian speaker, but the class president will give a speech, as will the school principal and Bethesda Magazine editor and publisher Steve Hull.

Hull, a 25-year veteran of the magazine publishing business, started Bethesda Magazine in 2004. Before that, he was a senior executive with the Atlantic Media Company for 14 years, a newspaper reporter and editor, an editor of several business-to-business magazines and a press secretary in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hull lives in Chevy Chase with his wife and four children, Bethesda Magazine reports.