- Gateway Center (STEM & History)
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Our Impact Goes Far Beyond These Walls.
Upper School Campus Transformation
Fostering innovation and imagination to prepare for an unscripted future.
Middle School Campus Reimagination
Setting the stage for exploration, inspiration and independence.
Preschool & Lower School Play Spaces
Refreshing playgrounds to inspire innovative play in our youngest learners.
The Durham Academy Fund: Annual Giving
Securing the foundation upon which our community builds.
Create a Tomorrow That Transcends Any Threshold.
Beyond the Threshold not only supports our talented students and teachers but will create a future of far-reaching impact. This campaign is the most ambitious fundraising effort Durham Academy has ever undertaken.
We’re on the threshold of the next phase in our exciting campus plans to create state-of-the-art teaching and learning environments. As we extend the ability of our life-changing teachers to create innovative, integrated learning experiences, we continue to carry out our commitment to the excellence for which Durham Academy is known. Beyond the Threshold delivers on our promise to provide a transformative educational experience, fulfilling a plan that started almost 30 years ago with the creation of our Preschool and Lower School campus.
The Durham Academy recipe really works to create happy, moral and productive lives. We see beyond the current test score or sports season, beyond the end of the school year, beyond graduation. That great beyond is what DA is really all about.
Michael Ulku-Steiner,
Head of School
A Community-Wide Effort
We are enormously proud to celebrate the success of Beyond the Threshold, the largest comprehensive campaign in Durham Academy’s history. It includes gifts made to the DA Fund, capital projects, endowment, and other support during the six-year campaign, ending June 30, 2024. We give our sincere thanks to all donors for this remarkable community-wide effort!
Durham Academy’s innovative learning environments catalyze intellectual curiosity, real-world problem-solving and academic excellence. Our investment today helps build lifelong learners, creative thinkers and leaders of tomorrow.
Karen Rabenau, Beyond the Threshold Campaign Steering Committee Chair, P’18, ’20, ’20, ’24
Our Impact: Beyond the Threshold in Action
Together, we are ensuring Durham Academy students and teachers will grow and learn without limits.
DA gave us an extremely strong foundation in STEM, enabling all of us to pursue careers integrating this knowledge across the fields of medicine, e-commerce, finance and real estate development. We want to pay it forward so that today’s students can similarly develop the ability to think critically and have the confidence to tackle any roadblock they may face.
Michelle Sutton Armenteros '07, Kent Sutton '14, Drew Sutton '06, Natalie Sutton Alvarez '07 and Grant Sutton '11, pictured with their parents, Shelayne and Frank Sutton