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J.D. Vance, an investor, commentator and author of the #1 New York Times best seller “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,” will visit Columbus Academy on November 30 as the featured speaker for the school’s annual Celebration of Leadership.

After spending time with Academy upper school students during the day, Vance will present to leadership donors in the evening at the Party Barn at the Wexner Residence.

Raised by his working-class…

A dozen Columbus Academy seniors were announced today as 2018 Semifinalists in the 63rd annual National Merit Scholarship Program. These academically talented students have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,500 National Merit Scholarships worth more than $32 million that will be offered next spring.

Columbus Academy’s 2018 National Merit Semifinalists

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• Michael Boeckman, son of Ron & Ann…

“Welcome to the 107th school year at Columbus Academy,” said Head of School Melissa Soderberg at the start of Convocation on August 22, 2017.

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Chris Bolognese, chair of Columbus Academy’s math department, has been selected as the state math teacher of the year!

“The biggest thing I have learned in my career is the importance of being able to learn, try and reflect on new ideas, all for the betterment of enhancing a student’s learning experience,” he said about this honor from the Ohio Council of Teachers of Mathematics that is formally called the Buck Martin…

At the beginning of July, Columbus Academy welcomed Mark Hansen as its new Head of Lower School.

Hansen was hired in February 2017 after an extensive national and international search. In addition to his previous role as Primary School Principal at Copenhagen International School in Denmark, he led elementary schools in Lithuania, Germany and Wisconsin as well as Sewickley Academy, a PreK-12 independent day school near Pittsburgh.

"I am very excited and honored to be joining…