You remember them from your school days, the students at the top of the class. They’re the athletes and the star students, the creative ones and the young public servants. In the Top of their Class series we will look at the lives of three students at the top of their class from three very different schools in Macon.

Tristan Benns is a senior at Central High School in the academically demanding International Baccalaureate, or IB, program. Graduates often head to Ivy League schools after high school. We meet Tristan in his IB art class where he talks about his love of comics, family and what it's like to attend a school within a school.

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