May 29, 2025
Upper School Announces Annual Awards
Last week, Cary Academy gathered for the annual Awards Ceremony to honor students who exemplified excellence throughout the 2024-2025 school year. We honor these individual accomplishments and celebrate the collective spirit of this student body. […]
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May 15, 2025
Upper School Track & Field Brings Home TISAC Title
The Chargers brought the heat to the TISAC Track & Field Championships, with the boys team capturing their third straight conference title. CA finished 33 points ahead of runner-up Ravenscroft—the largest margin of victory at TISAC […]
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April 11, 2025
CA Math League Results
CA Math League has wrapped up an impressive season, finishing 2nd overall in a tough 21-state region! Congratulations to our team members: Sose Arhuidese, ’27, Anna Benjamin, ’27, Daniel Chen, ’26, Victor He, ’27, Allen […]
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March 7, 2025
Soulful Strides Success
The Upper School came together last Friday for Soulful Strides—a vibrant, student-led Black History Month celebration hosted by CA’s Nubian Kings, Nubian Queens and the African American Affinity Group (AAAG). Months in the making, the celebratory event was a […]
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February 27, 2025
Elite Runner Snags Top Honors
Huge congratulations to Kavi Gibson, ’26, who punctuated his record-shattering cross country season by being named the Gatorade North Carolina Boys’s Cross Country Player of the Year. The prestigious award honors top high school athletes […]
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February 17, 2025
Strong Showing from US SciOly
On Saturday, February 8, the Upper School JV and Varsity SciOly teams competed in the Wolfpack Regional at NCSU. Varsity took 7th place overall and an undermanned JV team secured 8th. These feats are all […]
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December 9, 2024
HADESTOWN: TEEN EDITION Announced as Extracurricular Theater Production
The Arts department is excited to announce HADESTOWN: TEEN EDITION by Anaïs Mitchell as this year’s extracurricular theater production. Only available for school and youth groups with performers 19 years old and younger, this full-length adaptation of […]
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November 11, 2024
Profiles in Purpose
Charlotte’s path to purpose started in MaLi Burnett’s biology class, where she worked as a teaching assistant during her sophomore year. The role would evolve into co-designing and leading an “Ecology at CA” Discovery Term, during which Dadd learned about native and invasive species and environmental design principles through field trips to botanical gardens and parks. She applied her newfound knowledge by collaborating with peers to design and construct a wildlife pond behind the Center for Math and Science, now used as a real-world interactive lab for studying aquatic ecosystems.
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September 13, 2024
Spotlight On: Affinity Groups
Our affinity and alliance groups bring students together around shared identities to connect and socialize, identify issues and common concerns, and support each other. An intersectional student-led advisory board—CoExist—bridges different identities to strengthen campus-wide equity […]
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