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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…

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…

Alumni from across the country and around the world were welcomed back to our campus for Alumni Weekend 2025 on October 3-4! This year's milestones featured the 50th Reunion for our Class of 1975 and special recognition for all classes ending in 0 and 5. A total of 219 people attended the two-day celebration, including alumni from 1960 to 2020.

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 –…