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Over 200 guests gathered for Columbus Academy’s 2025 Alumni Holiday Luncheon on December 19. This year’s annual event inside The Grand Event Center at Grandview Yard honored 2025 Distinguished Alumnus Todd Park ’90 and Alumni Service Award recipient Elaine Boaz.

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The luncheon began with a welcome from Alumni…

Columbus Academy will honor Todd Y. Park ’90 as its 2025 Distinguished Alumnus and will celebrate the career of Elaine Boaz with the 2025 Alumni Service Award at our Alumni Holiday Luncheon on Friday, December 19!

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The event will take place at The Grand Event…

Columbus Academy alumna Audrey Lu ’25 is one of 161 students nationwide (and one of just two Ohioans) named as a 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholar! She is the third Academy graduate in the past seven years to earn the nation’s highest honor for high school students, joining Aniv Ray ’20 and Shreyah Mohanselvan ’18.

Audrey currently enjoys taking math, statistics, computer science and archaeology courses as a freshman at Harvard University. “I’m…

With approval from the Board of Trustees, Head of School Melissa Soderberg announced today that Columbus Academy's fieldhouse – which opened in January 2020 – is now named the John Exline ’64 Fieldhouse.

A community-wide celebration will be held on May 9, 2026, to honor Academy's longest-serving faculty member as he approaches retirement, concluding…

Dr. William Matsuzaki will be Columbus Academy’s assistant head of school for academic affairs starting in July 2026, announced Head of School Melissa Soderberg today.

“What first stood out to the search committee about Will was his incredibly impressive resume of serving as upper school head and director of the Tad Bird Honors College at All Saints’ Episcopal School in Fort Worth, Texas,” stated Melissa in…