FRENCHBORO – Joseph Paul Charpentier became the first eighth-grade graduate of the Frenchboro school on Outer Long Island since 1995 on Friday, June 11.

Charpentier, this year’s only graduate of the one-room schoolhouse, graduated with honors at a ceremony attended by some 70 people.

Charpentier lives with his grandparents, Karen and Paul Charpentier of Frenchboro. In the fall he will attend Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Mass.