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Academy Hosting Holiday Luncheon on December 19

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!

The event will take place at The Grand Event…

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Audrey Lu ’25 Named U.S. Presidential Scholar

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…

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Fieldhouse Named to Honor John Exline '64

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…

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New Assistant Head of School for 2026-27

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 Weekend 2025 Recap

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.