With heart, the show must go on. During this time, we have two primary goals: maintaining our strong community and academic contininuity. You may read more about Renaissance School's response to COVID-19 here.
We are known as a gifted school, but we keep a broader definition of motivated and creative. Tuition assistance is available, and application fees are waived in May. We want you to apply to Renaissance School.
Our program of study is both rigorous and enriching, asking students to engage on a daily basis their higher level thinking skills, their role as a social being, and their artistic creativity.
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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.
Congratulations to MGA AG Staffer Yanni R ('20, left) for a great leadership meeting with the Youth Governor and VA Governor Ralph Northam!
Congratulations to Bryan G ('21), whose Lighthouse film Overgrown has been accepted to Sun Valley Film Festival as part of their Future Filmmakers Forum! Overgrown will screen on March 21 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Congratulations to MGA Attorney General Mercedes G ('20) for an excellent training session in Richmond with VA Attorney General Mark Herring!
Congratulations to Konstantina D, who received her Bachelor of Science in Biological Anthropology from Rutgers U!
Congratulations to Will N ('16), who received his Bachelor of Arts with Distinction from UVA!
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!
Samiksha R ('19) will be attending the University of Leicester in BEng Aerospace Engineering!
Congratulations to Ethian K ('19) for earning his black belt in karate on 12/8/19! Congrats to the rest of the family on their achievements, too!
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 Theo T, published in RVA Mag with his piece Images of American Emptiness: Edward Hopper's Hotels.
Congratulations to Lola M ('19), Eva P ('19) and Samiksha R ('19) on the publication of their research article in BioTreks Journal!
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 Mercedes G ('20), Ioannis R ('20), Isabella R ('19), and Alex Z ('20) on the publication of their research article in BioTreks Journal!
Congrats to Samiksha R ('19, in red), whose disaster recovery plan took a prize - along with an all-expenses paid trip to the symposium! - at the New York Academy of Sciences! Very nice!
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!
Congratulations to Sophia C ('20) for passing her level 7 piano performance exam with Honors from the Royal Conservatory of Music!
Congratulations to Brianne L ('20), awarded a perpetual trophy for winning her hunter division. She also placed first in her equitation over fences class qualifying her for the finals at the annual horse show!
Congratulations to incoming Freshman Hinke Y., one of only 200 students nationally to hold the NAR JR HPR certification! She earned her National Association of Rocketry Junior High-Power Certification on July 13 at Great Meadow in The Plains, VA.
Congratulations to Acree M ('17), who made the William & Mary riding team this year!