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Transfer students are invited to register here for our Open House on April 19.
You may read more about our unique approach over the last year by clicking here.
Our program is rigorous and enriching. Students engage higher level thinking, their role as a social being, and artistic creativity on a daily basis.
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Student life at Renaissance School is both vibrant and engaging. Learn more about volunteerism, events, athletics and lot more.
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The application consists of four parts:
family information, a parent questionnaire, student application, and a student essay.
Designed with transfer students in mind, our April Open House is a great way for 10th and 11th graders to visit classes, speak with student ambassadors, and hear from our Head of School and Director of Admissions. Register today at this link.
Register NowOur annual art auction is our biggest fundraiser and always replete with fine and striking pieces. Bidding is now LIVE and goes until 8pm Friday 4/23 (the Spring Show Intermission)! Visit the auction at this link.
Bid Now!The premiere of the prerecorded showing of the hit play She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen, put on by the Renaissance School Performing Arts students, will be 7pm on 4/23!
Virtual tickets are $20 per household for those watching at home, or $30 apiece for students watching the show at school (with or without dinner). Please pay on Venmo @RenSchool99 (put "Spring Show" in the memo), with a credit card, or by dropping a check at school. Click the button below to sign up!
Sign Up for Tickets Now!Summer is a great time to learn in a relaxed but focused setting! Our summer workshops and for-credit classes are open to the public. Enrollment is limited and spaces are first-come, first-served, so sign up early using this Google Form.
Substantial discounts apply for registrations paid in full by May 1. Don't miss out! You may learn more about our summer programs at this link.
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Congratulations to Bryan G ('21) for his acceptances to VCU and Bennington!
Congratulations to Ellie L for her acceptances to California College of the Arts, with scholarship, Pratt, School of Visual Art (SVA) in New York, and VCU Arts!
Congratulations to Cora O for their acceptance to JMU!
Congratulations to Hendrik Y for his UVA Echols Scholar invitation, and acceptances to Rose Hulman Institute of Technology with scholarship, Clarkson Honors program with scholarhsip, the University of Waterloo Math Honors program with scholarshipand, University of Toronto, and for his Medal and Certificate of Distinction on the 2020 CSMC!
Congratulations to Ella S for her acceptances to VCU Honors, Virginia Tech, University of San Francisco with scholarship, Clarkson with scholarhsip,Fordham with scholarship, and Mary Baldwin, with scholarship!
Congratulations to Esprii C for their acceptances to to University of San Francisco, with scholarship, Wentworth Institute of Technology, with scholarship, Ohio Northern University, and George Mason University, VCU, SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design) and the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology!
Congratulations to William B for his acceptances to the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, and Mary Baldwin, with scholarship!
Congratulations to Eva R for their acceptances to the University of Richmond, and VCU with scholarship!
Congratulations to Elsa F for her acceptances to Barnard and VCU!
Congratulations to Emmett A for his acceptances to VCU Honors with scholarship, to Goucher with Presidential Scholarship, Bennington College, and to Mary Washington, with scholarship!
A big THANK YOU to Mr. McClellan, featured on CBS News for his participation in the Charlottesville City Schools Family Engagement Essential Needs Drive Thru.
Congratulations to Head of School Sara Johnson, recipient of a National Association of Independent Schools Fellowship for her doctoral work at Penn!
Congratulations to Ella S ('21), who will go on to the regional competition, and Zoe S ('24), who is runner up. Well done, thespians!
Congratulations to Hinke Y ('23), who was named a Distinguished Delegate of this year's YMCA Conference on National Affairs (CONA), the invitation-only national culmination of each year's Model General Assembly.
Congratulations to Ella S ('21), and alumni Mercedes G ('20), Yanni R ('20) and Alex Z ('20) for their publication BioTreks Journal!
Congratulations to William B ('21), Hendrik Y ('21), and alumni Ella D ('20) and Brianne L ('20), for their Synthetic Biology research article being published in peer-reviewed BioTreks Journal!
Congrats to Holly G ('22, violin) and the Waynesboro Symphony Orchestra for this remote production of Beethoven's 7th!
Head of Renaissance School, Sara Johnson, has been awarded a fellowship to the 2020 Klingenstein Heads of Schools Program at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York!
Congratulations to Ella D for her acceptances to Penn State, George Washington with scholarship, and USC!
Congratulations to Benji B for his acceptances to UC Boulder, Whitman, and Washington College!
Congratulations to Yanni R for his acceptances to Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Duke, UW Madison, Rensselaer, Bates, and being named a UVA Echols Scholar!
Congratulations to Tigist D for her acceptances to Mary Baldwin and VCU Arts!
Congratulations to Brianne L ('20) for her acceptances to William & Mary, Washington & Lee, Lehigh, Hollins with scholarship, the Villanova Business Program, and Miami of Ohio!
Congratulations to David A for his acceptances to UVA, the U of Iowa, UMizz, and the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse with a planned major in Television, Radio, and Film!
Congratulations to Mercedes G for her acceptances to Bethel, Villanova, Gettysburg, and Virginia Tech!
Congratulations to Sophia C for her acceptances to Smith with scholarship, William & Mary, Mary Baldwin, St. Johns with scholarship, Sarah Lawrence, VCU Honors, Oberlin, Kenyon with scholarship, and the Emerson Honors Program!
Congratulations to Alex Z ('20) for his acceptances to George Mason University and VCU with scholarship!
Congratulations to Abbey L ('20) for her acceptances to Sweet Briar and to Smith, with scholarship!
Congratulations to Gio L, a member of the SOCA Under 16 Elite team that won the State Cup on 11/3/19! (SOCA also won the state cup in U16 girls elite, U18 boys elite, and took second in U17 girls elite - wow!) Gio scored the equalizing goal that set the team for the win. Great job, Gio!
Congratulations to Artemis B ('19), Rosalee K ('19), and Ella S ('21) on on the publication of their research article in BioTreks Journal!
Congratulations to William B ('21) on his National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Internship! William is designing a web-based application to view telescope data before it is converted into an image (or used in some other capacity).
Congratulations to Ella S ('21) on her internship at Parichy Labs, which is within the UVA physical and life sciences building as well as the Chemistry building. The main focus of the lab is the study of zebrafish development, as well as zebrafish pigmentation and where the pigmentation genes are located.
Congratulations to Hinke Y ('23), who made it into the Senior Regional Orchestra on violin!
Congratulations to Tao G ('22), Bryan G ('21), Bea M ('23), and Alex Z ('20)! Tao's film Ghost Writer and Alex and Bryan's film Hung Out are showing at this year's Virginia Film Festival. Bea's animation Roast was accepted to the Brooklyn and New York Festivals. Great job!
Congratulations to Cora O ('21), Esprie C ('21), Sophia C ('20) and Tigist D ('20) for taking 2nd and 3rd places, respecitively, in the Piedmont Master Gardners' Climate Syposium on Sunday 9/8/19!
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