Grand River Academy

SCHOOL PROFILE Founded in 1963, Lake Ridge Academy is the only independent college preparatory school on Cleveland’s west side. It offers students numerous Advanced Placement and Honors courses and a number of unique programs and like Entrepreneurial Studies Program, Anatomy and Physiology, or Developmental Biology and Embryology. They also offer independent studies in subjects like Multivariable Calculus. FACILITIES The 93 acre campus includes a garden, a brand new science and engineering building, a gymnasium, a weight/workout facility, and outside sports amenities. The community resource center on campus includes a library and technology center, multi-media conference room, study rooms, project rooms, foreign language classrooms, computer labs, and a TV/video broadcast editing room. SPORTS AND ARTS Lake Ridge Academy offers a variety of sports for students of various ability levels. About 70% of students participate in the interscholastic sports program, and every year students go on to play in college. The arts program gives students many opportunities; students who take visual arts to study drama, direct and perform in plays, and have the chance to work with professional actors. COMMUNITY INFORMATION The school is located in North Ridgeville Ohio, a suburb 30 minutes west of Cleveland and eight miles south of Lake Erie.

SCHOOL PROFILE Founded in 1867, The Storm King School (SKS) is a private, independent, college pre- paratory boarding school. Located at the peak of Storm King Mountain in the Hudson River Valley, SKS is just about an hour north of New York City. The diverse college pre- paratory curriculum (including at least one Advanced Placement course in every core subject area) seeks to stimulate and engage the students’ individualized attention and a supportive learning environment. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/If-jPNA81jo" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> FACILITIES The large campus features three classroom buildings, 230- seat professional theater, ob- servatory with Newtonian telescope, fully equipped science labs, access to 3,800 acre Black Rock Forest Consortium, a gymnasium, five tennis courts, brand new sports field, a ceramics studio, a greenhouse, private music practice rooms, a music recording studio, and student center. SPORTS AND ARTS Personal growth is encouraged through championship athletics (19 sports teams and clubs) and a superb arts program including performing, visual, digital, and fine arts. The soccer program has been particularly successful for both the girls and boy’s teams. Six SKS teams (soccer, cross-country running, basketball, lacrosse, tennis, wrestling) won HVAL championships in recent years, plus the sportsmanship award, and the boys basketball team even won the New England Prep School Athletic Championship. DORMITORIES AND STUDENT LIFE The Storm King School students live in single sex, spacious dormitories where two students share each room. A limited number of single rooms are available. Each dormitory is supervised by a knowledgeable staff of caring dorm parents. Visit School Site: <a href="https://sks.org/">The Storm King School</a> Visit City Site: <a href="http://www.cornwall-on-hudson.org/">Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York</a>

SCHOOL PROFILE The MacDuffie School offers students unique academic programs such as their Leadership Program, developed by a professor from the Cornell University Graduate School of Management. MacDuffie's science department has partnerships with UMass Amherst's Polymer Science Lab and the Harvard University Science Department. The school also has guaranteed admission agreements with Wentworth Institute of Technology and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. FACILITIES The MacDuffie School's new 50-acre campus features state of the art technology in each building. A new artificial turf field and baseball field were added this past year. The school is also in the process of building a new Creativity Center. SPORTS AND ARTS The MacDuffie School has a longstanding reputation as a fierce intercollegiate athletic competitor. The school has recently won championships in soccer, basketball, volleyball, badminton, and cross country. The girls soccer team reached a record 45-game win streak and has won three of the last four New England Championships. The MacDuffie School has a very strong arts program, students have several academic opportunities including drama, in which students write and perform their own original one-act plays each spring. DORMITORIES AND STUDENT LIFE Boarding students take advantage of the school's New England campus each weekend with activities such as apple picking, skiing, and trips to Boston and local colleges and universities. Students can participate in extracurricular activities such as the new eSports team or the Math Team, which is ranked #13 in the country. Visit School Site: <a href="https://macduffie.org/">The MacDuffie School</a> Visit City Site: <a href="https://www.granby-ma.gov/">Granby, Massachusetts</a>