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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…

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…

Columbus Academy has begun construction on the Viking Shipyard (aka The Yard), “an expansive hub for our makerspaces, technology offices and robotics classes/activities in one large fabrication lab,” announced Head of School Melissa Soderberg today.

As described by Director of Technology Brent Halsey ’02: “The Viking Shipyard is an intentionally designed destination – a place set apart from our traditional academic buildings –…

In addition to its nine National Merit Semifinalists previously announced, Columbus Academy’s Class of 2026 has 13 nationally recognized Commended Students in the 71st annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

The following seniors have been named National Merit Commended Students for demonstrating outstanding potential for academic success by…

Columbus Academy seniors Adam Aikins, Jackson Amato, Dane Chaky, Bella Lee, Jon Proctor, Dillan Reddy, Ella Tang, Aashi Varia and Angela Zhang were among the more than 16,000 Semifinalists recently announced in the 71st annual National Merit Scholarship Program.

Representing less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, they were among our state’s highest-scoring students on the 2024 PSAT exam and have the opportunity to…