Student life at Columbus Academy is incredibly varied. CA's student population comes from fifty-four different zip codes within a 50-mile radius of central Ohio. These students bring myriad backgrounds and living experiences to campus on a daily basis, enriching the lives of their classmates. Ethnic, racial, religious, and economic diversity not only exists, but is celebrated through curricular studies and special programs such as the school's East Asia Institute. Clubs, community service opportunities, and extra-curricular activities allow each student to pursue special interests while discovering that we are all more alike than we are different.

A number of Columbus Academy's faculty hail from Europe, South America and Asia, ensuring a more global view and sensitivity at the school. Because CA offers Spanish language instruction beginning in Kindergarten and running through 12th grade, graduating students become proficient in an applicable foreign language. Middle and Upper School students may opt to take Chinese, another critical language in today's world. And annual visits to and from our sister city, Hefei, China, ensure ongoing contact with another culture and language reinforcement.

Columbus Academy presents its students with innumerable opportunities for leadership training. Preparing students to be leaders in an increasingly diverse and interconnected world is, in fact, a priority here. In social studies courses such as military history, students discover effective leaders of the past and learn to apply their successful strategies to present-day situations. Because the number of students in each grade remains small, each student can—and is encouraged to—assume a leadership role in some school activity. Consequently, CA graduates leave ready to make an impact in college and beyond.

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For more about Columbus Academy's East Asia Institute, click on this link.