Explore your interests
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Arts, athletics, community learning and support belong to the whole education.
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Bring your questions to class and work through them with others. Your teachers will help you make connections and take your thinking further.
See how your interests could grow at Cary Academy, in the classroom and beyond. Meet the teachers who will back you, find the clubs, teams and stages where you fit, and imagine what a school day here could look like.
Grades 6 to 12 share one wooded campus in Cary, with teachers who know each student by name.
Middle School is where students try things for the first time: a new language, a lab report, a lead role, a team. Small advisory groups meet every morning, so no one finds their footing alone.
Classes mix hands-on projects with steady skill building, and teachers give students more say in their own work each year.
Upper School students build their own path through a wide range of courses, from research science to studio art, with time in the schedule to go deep.
From ninth grade on, a college counselor helps each student plan what comes next, and why it fits them.
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Twelve students in the film elective wrote, shot and edited a four-minute short in one week. It premieres at winter arts night.
Read the storyFamilies apply to grades 6 through 12 each fall and winter. Here’s how you get from a first look to a first day, with our admissions team beside you the whole way.
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Tour the campus, sit in on a class and meet the teachers.
Plan a visit02
Start online, then add school records, references and an interview.
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