2 Ransom Everglades LOG FALL 2025 From The Pagoda It is a privilege to steward Ransom Everglades during this special time in our school’s great history. As RE’s national and international stature continues to rise, one can almost feel a simultaneous increase in unity and community. During the last school year, as RE was recognized as a top-10 school in North America for the second straight year, every member of our professional community – for the first time in at least two decades – made a financial gift to the school. The 100-percent participation of our faculty and staff highlights the abundant Joy & Wellbeing on our campuses far more vividly than the fiscal bottom line. Our students are the beneficiaries, and they are thriving in the classroom and beyond. In a survey last spring, RE students described Ransom Everglades using words including “fun,” “community” and “care,” and nearly 90 percent of upper school students said they had a trusted adult on campus in whom to confide. Our students also indicated that they value – and practice – academic integrity. Needless to say, we were delighted with these results. We also learned this summer that 88 percent of RE students scored 4s or 5s on their AP examinations and the majority of RE test takers achieved the highest score of 5. This is great news, and it confirms what research tells us: that community, care and belonging are deeply intertwined with student achievement or, as we say it at Ransom Everglades: Honor & Excellence. Seventy years after the founding of Everglades School for Girls and more than 120 years after the start of the Florida-Adirondack School, we continue to feel the impact of grand ideas infused with big dreams and built on strong values and tireless dedication. Our alumni are REconnecting with each other and current students frequently and meaningfully, and our strongest supporters continue to ensure that we recruit and keep the highest-caliber teachers. Even our REimagined college counseling office, which seeks to ensure that each senior finds a great fit in the college process, achieved success last spring from every vantage point, including from the most traditional view of excellence as nearly 1 in 4 members of the Class of 2025 (38 out of 160 seniors) headed to an Ivy League school, Stanford, Duke or MIT this fall. Our gREat school is a testament to what dreaming big can accomplish, and this magazine aims to highlight some of our most ambitious dREamers. Alumna Ali (Salaverria) Mejia ’90 set aside Wall Street ambitions to pursue clothing design – namely, pajamas – an aspiration she carried from her high school days. Her passion and The Power of Ransom Everglades We are dREaming big Community, care and belonging are deeply intertwined with student achievement or, as we say it at Ransom Everglades: Honor & Excellence.” “
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