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Columbus Academy’s 116th school year began on August 24 with 1,186 students, the school’s largest-ever enrollment. Special highlights to the start of this school year were an expansion to our Explorers program for 3-year-olds, the opening of a high-tech innovation lab called the Viking Shipyard and new academic courses such as Synthetic Biology, Japanese History, an honors English class on Dystopian Dilemmas and an honors computer science class in Machine Learning.…

John Wuorinen ’80, who recently retired after 42 years of service to the school as a teacher, administrator and coach, will be honored throughout Alumni Weekend 2026 at Columbus Academy on October 9-10.

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The Columbus Academy Alumni Board is thrilled to announce that Zach Doran ’00 and Bryan Morosky ’04 have been selected as the 2026 inductees into our Athletic Hall of Fame. This year’s induction ceremony will take place at noon on Saturday, October 10, which is also the second day of Alumni Weekend.

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Head of School Melissa Soderberg used the Billy Joel song “Vienna” to relate her message to graduates at Columbus Academy’s 113th Commencement on June 1.

“For a 49-year-old song, it really has a surprisingly timely message,” she noted. “What I’m curious about, however, is what does Vienna represent on a grander scale when we think about slowing down and appreciating the life you have – practicing living it well as opposed to always calculating…

Columbus Academy has received a generous gift from the Dunn family that will strengthen the school’s unrestricted endowment and support its highest priorities for generations to come.

“This extraordinary gift will have a lasting impact on our school’s unrestricted endowment,” announced Head of School Melissa Soderberg. “Because it is unrestricted, it gives us the flexibility to invest in Columbus Academy’s highest priorities…