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This graduation was very light on the pomp.

More than a dozen Queens eighth-graders mistakenly banned from attending their graduation in June got to walk across the stage yesterday — which many called bittersweet.

“I feel happy because I finally got to graduate. But it is not the same because there are some people I’m not going to see next [school] year, and I wanted to be with them,” said Megan Marrera, a 13-year-old who attended Bell Academy MS in Bayside.

At yesterday’s event at IS 145 in Jackson Heights, community superintendent Dr. Philip Composto apologized for “the misunderstanding.”

The ceremony was a first-time graduation for kids taking summer courses and a makeup for students mistakenly sent to summer school based on preliminary test results — even though they found out in July they actually passed.

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