As Cary Academy enters its 30th year, Head of School Dr. Mike Ehrhardt reflects on the unexpected paths, individual transformations, and willingness to keep evolving that have shaped both his life and the school he has led.  Mike Ehrhardt remembers the moment clearly.  It was early in his tenure at Cary Academy, and he had […]

    Across courts, fields, tracks, pools, and courses, Charger athletes turned in another strong year. Championship performances, broken records, individual honors, and collegiate commitments reflected both the talent of our student-athletes and the commitment they bring to their sports. The accomplishments captured here offer a snapshot of another year of high-level competition and athletic […]

    The Cary Academy Speech & Debate team enters the final stretch of one of the most successful seasons in program history, having earned championship performances at the league, state, district, and national levels. Along the way, 20 Cary Academy students qualified for the National Speech & Debate Tournament and 21 qualified for NCFL […]

When Trey Murphy III, ’18, returns to Cary Academy as this year’s Commencement speaker, he comes not just as an NBA standout but as someone profoundly shaped by a community that nurtured his drive, steadiness, and sense of purpose long before he took the national stage.  Ask him what he remembers most from his time […]

How one seventh-grade awakening became the foundation for a career spent helping students discover their own.  You might call it a full-circle moment.  Long before Lucy Dawson became Cary Academy’s Middle School Dean of Students—and long before she helped shape a seventh-grade humanities experience known for its intellectual depth, interdisciplinary connections, and student-centered care—she was […]

Cary Academy is setting a new standard for access and affordability in independent education. Introducing Charger Promise—free tuition for families earning $100,000 or less, with significant, scaled support extending far beyond that.  Grounded in our founding values and propelled by an alum whose own CA beginning transformed her future, Charger Promise is more than an […]

A pilot inter-disciplinary program weaves together content, context, and connection.  Last fall, 16 Upper School students stepped into a new kind of classroom. While Cary Academy has long championed experiential learning and flexible environments, this was something more—an ambitious, co-developed and co-taught interdisciplinary pilot rooted in curiosity, collaboration, and connection. There were no bells dictating subject shifts, […]