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At Harlem Academy, physical education is about more than fitness. It’s a chance to build confidence, teamwork, and perseverance – both on and off the field.

Ask Riverdale senior Micaela Gonzalez '21 what is most important to her, and she’ll say service. “I’ve always had a passion for giving back to my community.” It’s the reason she will study nursing when she heads to University of Pennsylvania this fall.

Eighth grader Rabi ’25 was on his way to school when he found out that he’d been accepted to Deerfield Academy. He immediately called his mother to tell her the good news.

In recent weeks, we welcomed two inspiring leaders to Harlem Academy as part of our Literary Speaker Series: Tony and Grammy Award-winning performer and bestselling author Leslie Odom Jr. and National Book Award-winning author and historian Dr. Ibram X. Kendi.

We're excited to share the latest edition of our Journal!

Harlem Academy’s chess team has been gaining momentum – and racking up an impressive collection of trophies and medals along the way.

At their recent Celebrations of Learning, our sixth and eighth graders took center stage to perform creative, inspiring, and sometimes vulnerable original poetry for an audience of family and friends – a culmination of weeks spent deeply engaged in an exploration of the craft.

Toluwanimi “Tolu” Onanuga ’18, a junior at SUNY Albany, plans to attend law school after college, and he is determined to set himself up for success.

Our alumni venture all over the country for college. They head north to Dartmouth, south to Morehouse and Spelman, and west to Northwestern and even Stanford. However, no one has set their sights so far east that they crossed the Atlantic until Lisa Lushtak '20 enrolled at University College London (UCL) this past fall.