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The Moral, Happy, Productive arc calls for plenty of space — literal and figurative — for students to dream, to create and to build. As Upper School engineering and physics teacher and DARC SIDE robotics team coach Zack VanKirk writes, there’s no better place to do so than Durham Academy.

Peck, who teaches the popular Cavalier Comics After-School Enrichment at the Middle School, was selected via an RFP process to create "A Line in the Snow" — a 7-foot tall, 37-foot wide ceramic tile mosaic on the Buffalo Bills stadium’s main concourse.

At the halfway point of the fall season, our seven fall varsity teams are off to great starts, with many expecting to challenge for state titles. In fact, all five of our girls teams are in the top half of the NCISAA 4A rankings. We are looking forward to Friday’s Homecoming festivities — thank you for your support of our student-athletes!

The time is nigh for Cavaliers of all ages to gather for Durham Academy Homecoming. In celebration of this weekend’s festivities, we caught up with two DA alumni from this year’s reunion classes — both of whom have pursued careers that run in their families, and the DA family.

May 16, 2026, will live forever in the annals of Durham Academy as the day that three athletics teams — boys tennis, boys lacrosse and girls track and field — all won state championships in a 90-minute span, marking the first time DA won three athletics championships on the same day in 38 years.

Highlighting a trio of current and former Cavaliers who used the summer to chase their dreams in front of the camera, in an engineering lab and in the halls of legislative power.

At heart, Alex Creech is an empath, a learner and a lover of the natural world: three qualities that have already served her well in her two months as Durham Academy’s sustainability director.

Durham Academy's newest faculty and staff members arrive with a slew of moral, happy and productive experiences — and an appetite for more.

Want to see you child's schedule at a glance or review progress reports? Need to sign up for an Extended Day program? Looking for college counseling forms? Look no further than your Veracross Parent Portal!

Associate Head of School Kristen Klein has accepted an offer to serve as the next Head of School at  Rye Country Day School in New York. Kristen will continue to serve as Associate Head of School at Durham Academy for the entire 2026–2027 school year. Her role as Head of School at RCDS begins July 1, 2027.

By using Durham Academy's iCal calendar subscriptions, parents, faculty and students can easily add continually updated event feeds to their calendar client of choice with just a few clicks. You may add as many or as few calendars — ranging from your child's class schedule or assignments, to division-specific activities and athletic team schedules, to Middle and Upper School rotational calendars — as you wish to any calendar client that accepts iCal feeds.

In the event of a closing or schedule change due to inclement weather or a school emergency, Durham Academy will communicate this information to families in a number of ways.

Durham Academy has appointed Ryne Linsley, an accomplished coach, educator and athletics leader with more than 15 years of lacrosse coaching experience, as its next varsity boys lacrosse head coach and program director, starting with the 2026–2027 school year. Linsley comes to Durham Academy from Rabun Gap–Nacoochee School, where he founded and built the boys lacrosse program from the ground up beginning in 2020.

Saturday reminded us why high school sports still matter. When young people compete for something larger than themselves — and when they wear their school’s name across their chest and play for their teammates, their community and each other — extraordinary things can happen. Saturday, they did.

In impressive fashion, Durham Academy’s boys lacrosse and boys tennis teams won state semifinal contests Tuesday and advanced to Saturday’s state championships! Also this weekend, 30 DA track and field athletes will compete in the state meet.