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Brightest and Best is WXYZ's 42-year tradition recognizing the academic achievements of graduating seniors from high schools across metro Detroit.
We are proud to publicly recognize southeast Michigan high school graduates for their academic excellence. These young men and women earned their success and reached the top of their class.
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, our in-person celebration was once again canceled, but we are proud to celebrate them virtually. You can meet the 2021 Brightest and Best honorees below.
| Jackson County | |
| Lapeer County | |
| Almont High School | Elizabeth Bennett |
| Dryden Senior High School | Miya Wolff |
| North Branch High School | Chloe Caringi |
| Livingston County | |
| Brighton High School | Connor Wilkinson |
| Charyl Stockwell Preparatory Academy | Dylan Tremba |
Fowlerville High School Hartland High School Howell High School | |
| Livingston Classical Academy | Olivia Sly |
| Kensington Woods Schools | Abigail Ferguson |
| Pinckney Community High School | Isabelle Howard |
| Macomb County | |
| Adlai Stevenson High School | Elena Serra |
| Armada High School | Brennan McClelland |
| Center Line High School | Syeda Hussain |
| Chippewa Valley High School | Ava MacDonald |
| Clintondale High School | Sara Arment |
| Dakota High School | Taylor Burnham |
| De La Salle Collegiate High School | Joshua Hoenscheid |
| Eastpointe High School | Naomi Martinez |
| Eisenhower High School | Jacob Siemen |
| Fitzgerald High School | Tazkira Amin |
| Fraser High School | Elijah DiCerbo |
| Henry Ford II High School | Naveenjohn Premkumar |
| International Academy of Macomb | Hailey Hartz |
| L'Anse Creuse High School | Max Godin |
| L'Anse Creuse High School - North | Jarrett Geddes |
| Lake Shore High School | Callen Fields |
| Lakeview High School | Dea Kanani |
| Lincoln High School | Dyasia Robinson |
| Lutheran High School North | Antonio Lia |
Merritt Academy Mt. Clemens High School New Haven High School | Christian Lara-Hernandez David Martin |
| Parkway Christian School | Jaelle Freeman |
| Regina High School | Jenna O'Brien |
| Richmond High School | Sarah Gasko |
Romeo High School Roseville High School | |
| South Lake High School | Jennifer Dupuis |
| Utica Academy for International Studies | Alexander Dean Hughes |
| Utica High School | Turner Tomatti |
| Warren Mott High School | Brian Georgis |
| Warren Woods Tower | Tylor Skrzypczak |
| Monroe County | |
| Airport High School | Payton Bucki |
| Monroe High School | Emma Scznsny |
| St. Mary Catholic Central | Natalie Ambs |
| Oakland County | |
| Academy of the Sacred Heart | Catherine Lehmkuhl |
| AGBU Alex & Marie Manoogian School | David Togmajyan |
| Avondale High School | Anjika Jain |
| Berkley High School | Brandon Mar |
| Bishop Foley Catholic High School | Arianna Kerkmaz |
| Bloomfield Hills High School | Timothy Martin |
| Clarkston High School | Parker Szachta |
| Cranbrook Kingswood School | Daniel Xu |
| Detroit Catholic Central High School | Matthew Kozma |
| Detroit Country Day School | Zaid Siddiqui |
| Everest Collegiate High School | Danielle Brown |
| Farmington High School | Andrew Pan |
| Ferndale High School | Elena Deegan-Krause |
| Hazel Park High School | Rebecca Adkins |
| Holly High School | Lauren Costigan |
| International Academy - West Campus | Pranav Narayanan |
International Academy East International Academy OKMA | |
| Lakeland High School | Alyssa A. Younker |
| Lake Orion High School | Roman Gaskey |
| Lamphere High School | Sean Spanke |
| Lutheran High School Northwest | Dimitri Luhring |
| Marian High School | Regan O'Brien |
| Mercy High School | Gabrielle Pough |
| Milford High School | Kristen Schang |
| North Farmington High School | Juliette Quenioux |
| Notre Dame Preparatory School | Lars Boehme |
| Novi Christian Academy | Sophia Fitrakis |
| Novi High School | Alexander Wan |
| Oakland Christian School | Thu Thi Kim Do |
Oakland Early College Oak Park High School | Ronald Eric-Clarence Feimster III |
| Orchard Lake St. Mary's Prep | Kobe Howcroft |
| Our Lady of the Lakes | Yeongjin Park |
| Oxford High School | Lauren Schiller |
| Rochester Adams High School | Alison Chen |
| Rochester High School | A.J. deVaux |
| Royal Oak High School | Hava Szarafinski |
| Seaholm High School | Marlena Brown |
| Shrine Catholic High School | Elizabeth Kemp |
| South Lyon High School | Sarah Olivia Empie |
| South Lyon East High School | Abigail Seybert |
| Southfield Christian School | Eden Comer |
| Southfield High School for the Arts & Technology | Chisom Nwadinobi |
St. Catherine of Siena Academy Stoney Creek High School | |
| The Roeper School | Francis Allen |
| Troy Athens High School | Nathania Nartey |
| Troy High School | Jasmine Wu |
| University High School Academy | Leslie Washington |
| Walled Lake Central High School | Christopher Tarry |
| Walled Lake Northern High School | Abigail Connell |
| Walled Lake Western High School | Jonathan Holland |
| Waterford Kettering High School | Jack Burch |
| Waterford Mott High School | Caitlin Sohrabi |
| West Bloomfield High School | Rave Andrews |
| Wylie E. Groves High School | Aarani Balendran |
| Sanilac County | |
| Carsonville-Port Sanilac High School | Abigail Norton |
| Croswell-Lexington High School | Erin Manns |
| Deckerville High School | Brett Dumaw |
| Peck High School | Rylee French |
| Sandusky Senior High School | Jacob Sanderson |
| St. Clair County | |
| Algonac High School | Brendon Wolfe |
| Anchor Bay High School | Giana Marie Maniaci |
| Capac Senior High School | Bryce Tank |
| Cardinal Mooney Catholic | Kathryn Luzynski |
| Marine City High School | Marisa May |
| Marysville High School | Nicholas Hong |
| Memphis High School | Katie Koch |
| New Life Christian Academy | Josiah Keller |
| Port Huron High School | Trevor Arcieri |
| Port Huron Northern High School | Andrew Robbins |
| St. Clair High School | Alyvia Osborne |
| Yale High School | William Falls |
| Washtenaw County | |
| Chelsea High School | Evan Eidt |
| Dexter High School | Robert Lynch |
| Fr. Gabriel Richard High School | Joseph Ghezzi |
| Manchester Jr/Sr High School | Katelyn Blumenauer |
| Milan High School | Noah Pyle |
| Whitmore Lake High School | Samantha Ogden |
| Washtenaw Christian Academy | Maya Jeffery |
| Ypsilanti New Tech High School | Caprice Augustine |
| Wayne County | |
| Advanced Technology Academy | Jaslin Garcia-Morales |
| Allen Park High School | Jack Mack |
| Annapolis High School | Maisie Fujita |
| Belleville High School | Sydney Morgan Sielaff |
| Cabrini High School | Matthew Heath |
| Canton High School | Poulami Sau |
| Cass Technical High School | Mohammad Muntakim |
| Cesar Chavez Academy High School | Mariana Lopez |
| Chandler Park Academy | Jaylen Body |
| Clarenceville High School | Allyson Telck |
| Cornerstone Health & Technology High School | Kevin Rivers |
| Crestwood High School | Zaharaa Altwaij |
| Dearborn High School | Celina Bazzi |
Dearborn Edsel Ford High School DEPSA Early College of Excellence | |
| Divine Child High School | Victoria Lynne Brey |
| Ecorse Community High School | Dominic Woods |
| Flat Rock Community High School | Ryan Konarska |
| Fordson High School | Reda Mazeh |
| Franklin High School | Payton Welch |
| Gabriel Richard Catholic High School | Maria Ritchie |
| Garden City High School | Maya Li Kreiner |
| Grosse Ile High School | Divum Mittal |
| Grosse Pointe North High School | Stephen Barstys |
| Grosse Pointe South High School | Eva McCord |
Hamtramck High School Harper Woods High School | Beyonce' Harrell-Pilar |
Huron High School Huron Valley Lutheran High School | |
| John Glenn High School | Savannah Lefler |
| Lee M. Thurston High School | Fadil Al-Husseini |
| Lincoln Park High School | Sydney O'Hare |
| Livonia Stevenson High School | Kenneth Fuher |
| Martin Luther King Senior High School | Kordell Holmes |
| Lutheran High School Westland | Annika Mattson |
| Melvindale High School | Ngoc Nguyen |
Old Redford Academy High School Oscar A. Carlson High School | |
| Plymouth Christian Academy | Emily Cameron |
| Plymouth High School | Julia Bhuiyan |
| Redford Union High School | Donovan James Hollins |
| Renaissance High School | Christopher Michael Williams |
| Riverview Community High School | Zachariah Thomas |
| River Rouge High School | Micah Bolden |
| Robichaud High School | Asmaa AlBardn |
| Salem High School | Aubrey Parisi |
| Southgate Anderson High School | Frank Rasizzi |
| Star International Academy | Noor Kareem |
| Taylor High School | Kaycee Khuat |
Theodore Roosevelt High School Trenton High School | |
Universal Learning Academy Universal Academy University of Detroit Jesuit High School & Academy | Sara Ali |
University Liggett University Prep Academy | |
| Wayne Memorial High School | Mirian Mendoza |
| Winston Churchill High School | Julia Gershon |
| Western International High School | Elizabeth Jaramillo |
| Woodhaven High School | Dawood Virk |
