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School Overview

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Overall
A-
Matriculation A-
Academics A
Extracurriculars A-
Community A-
Reviews B
Ravenscroft School is a co-educational college preparatory day school, grades pre-Kindergarten
through grade 12, located in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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School Stats

Average
Current School
Tuition
$32150
Enrollment
1250
International Students
2%
Faculty with Advanced Degrees
80%
Teacher-Student Ratio
1:8
Endowment
$28 millions
AP
22
Average SAT Score
1295
Average ACT Score
29
Class Size
12

Matriculation

(2023)
Ranking University/College Students
#6 University of Chicago 1
#10 Duke University 2
LAC #2 Amherst College 1
#15 Washington University in St. Louis 1
#18 Columbia University 1
#22 Carnegie Mellon University 1
#25 New York University 1
#29 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6
#29 Wake Forest University 1
#32 Tufts University 1
#34 University of California: San Diego 2
#38 University of Texas at Austin 1
#38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1
#44 Northeastern University 2
#49 University of Georgia 3
LAC #11 Washington and Lee University 1
#72 Indiana University Bloomington 4
#72 North Carolina State University 12
#72 Southern Methodist University 1
#77 Baylor University 1
#77 Clemson University 3
#83 University of Iowa 1
#89 Elon University 3
Auburn University 1
#105 Rochester Institute of Technology 1
#105 University of Arizona 1
#115 Fairfield University 1
#115 University of South Carolina: Columbia 5
#121 Temple University 1
#130 Eckerd College 1
#151 James Madison University 1
#151 Oregon State University 1
#151 University of Mississippi 6
LAC #31 Kenyon College 1
LAC #39 Denison University 1
#202 University of North Carolina at Wilmington 3
#219 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 8
LAC #45 Furman University 1
#234 East Carolina University 2
LAC #55 Centre College 1
Appalachian State University 4
City University of New York: Baruch College 1
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: Daytona Beach Campus 1
Endicott College 1
High Point University 1
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 1
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University 1
Ohio State University: Columbus Campus 2
Pensacola State College 1
Queens University of Charlotte 1
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 1
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1
University of North Carolina School of the Arts 1
University of Tennessee: Knoxville 4
Wagner College 1
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Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2022 2021 2019 2018 Total
All schools 66 84 35 75 28
#6 University of Chicago 1 1 admitted 1 + 3
#7 Johns Hopkins University 1 admitted 1
#10 Duke University 2 3 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 8
#13 Dartmouth College 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#14 Vanderbilt University 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#15 Washington University in St. Louis 1 1 admitted 1 +admitted 3
#17 Rice University 1 +admitted 1
#17 Cornell University 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#18 Columbia University 1 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#18 University of Notre Dame 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 4
#20 University of California: Los Angeles 1 +admitted 1
#22 Emory University 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#22 University of California: Berkeley 1 +admitted 1
#22 Georgetown University 3 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 5
#22 Carnegie Mellon University 1 1 admitted 2
#25 University of Michigan 1 admitted 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#25 University of Virginia 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#25 New York University 1 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 4
#27 University of Southern California 1 + 1 +admitted 2
#28 University of Florida 1 + 1
#29 Wake Forest University 1 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 5
#29 Georgia Institute of Technology 1 +admitted 1 + 2
#29 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 6 7 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 16
#29 University of Rochester 1 +admitted 1
#32 Tufts University 1 1 +admitted 2
#32 University of California: Santa Barbara 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 3
#34 University of California: San Diego 2 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 5
#36 Boston College 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 3
#38 University of Texas at Austin 1 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#38 University of Wisconsin-Madison 1 1 +admitted 2
#38 University of California: Davis 1 admitted 1 + 2
#40 College of William and Mary 1 +admitted 1
#41 Boston University 1 admitted 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#44 Brandeis University 1 admitted 1
#44 Northeastern University 2 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 5
#44 Case Western Reserve University 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#44 Tulane University 2 admitted 1 +admitted 3
#49 Villanova University 1 + 1 +admitted 2
#49 University of Georgia 3 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 6
#50 Pepperdine University 1 +admitted 1
#51 Purdue University 1 admitted 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#51 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 4
#54 Syracuse University 1 +admitted 1 + 2
#55 University of Miami 1 + 1 +admitted 2
#55 Florida State University 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#57 University of Pittsburgh 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#62 University of Washington 1 +admitted 1
#62 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 6 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 8
#62 Rutgers University 1 +admitted 1
#62 George Washington University 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 3
#64 University of Maryland: College Park 1 +admitted 1
#64 University of Connecticut 1 +admitted 1
#64 University of Massachusetts Amherst 1 +admitted 1
#67 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1 admitted 1 + 2
#70 University of Minnesota: Twin Cities 1 +admitted 1
#72 Southern Methodist University 1 1 admitted 1 +admitted 1 + 4
#72 American University 1 admitted 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#72 Fordham University 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#72 North Carolina State University 12 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 16
#72 Indiana University Bloomington 4 1 admitted 1 +admitted 1 + 7
#77 Baylor University 1 1 admitted 2
#77 Michigan State University 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#77 Clemson University 3 4 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 10
#77 SUNY University at Stony Brook 1 admitted 1
#83 University of Iowa 1 1
#89 Colorado School of Mines 1 admitted 1
#89 Texas Christian University 1 admitted 1
#89 Elon University 3 2 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 7
#93 University of Delaware 1 + 1
#97 University of Denver 1 +admitted 1
#97 Auburn University 1 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 4
#97 University of South Florida 1 admitted 1
#99 University of Utah 1 + 1
#105 University of Arizona 1 1 admitted 1 +admitted 3
#105 Miami University: Oxford 1 admitted 1
#105 Rochester Institute of Technology 1 1
#105 Drexel University 1 admitted 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#105 University of Oregon 1 admitted 1
#115 University of South Carolina: Columbia 5 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 8
#115 Loyola University Chicago 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 3
#121 Temple University 1 1 admitted 2
#121 University of Vermont 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#121 Arizona State University 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 3
#125 Simmons University 1 +admitted 1
#132 University of Oklahoma 1 +admitted 1
#136 University of New Hampshire 1 + 1
#137 University of Alabama 1 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 3
#137 University of Kentucky 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#139 Seton Hall University 1 +admitted 1
#147 San Diego State University 1 +admitted 1
#151 Oregon State University 1 1
#176 Catholic University of America 1 admitted 1
University of Tennessee: Knoxville 4 3 admitted 1 +admitted 8
Ohio State University: Columbus Campus 2 1 +admitted 3
University of Colorado Boulder 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
University of California: Santa Cruz 1 admitted 1
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1 1 admitted 1 +admitted 3
Penn State University Park 5 admitted 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 8
University of Texas at Dallas 1 admitted 1
Matriculation
Ranking University/College 2023 2022 2021 2019 2018 Total
All schools 6 14 5 13 4
#2 Amherst College 1 1 admitted 2
#4 Swarthmore College 1 admitted 1
#5 Wellesley College 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#11 Washington and Lee University 1 1 +admitted 2
#13 Smith College 1 admitted 1
#18 University of Richmond 1 admitted 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#19 Colgate University 1 + 1
#25 Barnard College 1 +admitted 1
#25 Bates College 1 admitted 1
#26 Colorado College 1 + 1
#31 Bryn Mawr College 1 admitted 1
#31 Kenyon College 1 1 +admitted 2
#33 College of the Holy Cross 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#35 Pitzer College 1 + 1
#35 Bucknell University 1 +admitted 1
#36 Mount Holyoke College 1 admitted 1
#39 Denison University 1 1 + 2
#39 Skidmore College 1 admitted 1
#40 Franklin & Marshall College 1 + 1
#45 Union College 1 + 1
#45 Furman University 1 1 admitted 1 +admitted 3
#46 DePauw University 1 +admitted 1
#50 The University of the South 1 + 1 +admitted 1 + 3
#51 Dickinson College 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2
#55 Centre College 1 1 +admitted 2
#55 Connecticut College 1 admitted 1
Oberlin College 1 admitted 1 +admitted 2

AP Scores

(2022)
28%
29%
24%
Score 5
Score 4
Score 3
Other scores

Academics

AP

(22)
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
Computer Science A
English Language and Composition
Biology
Calculus AB
Calculus BC
Chemistry
Computer Science A
English Language and Composition
English Literature and Composition
European History
Latin
Macroeconomics
Microeconomics
Spanish Language and Culture
Statistics
United States History
World History
Environmental Science
Human Geography
Psychology
Chinese Language and Culture
Studio Art: 2-D Design
Art History
Physics C: Mechanics
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Sports

(15)
Baseball
Basketball
Cheerleading
Cross Country
Field Hockey
American Football
Baseball
Basketball
Cheerleading
Cross Country
Field Hockey
American Football
Golf
Lacrosse
Soccer
Softball
Swimming
Tennis
Track and Field
Volleyball
Wrestling
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Extracurricular Activities and Clubs

(13)
Bibliomania
Nevarmore (Student Newspaper)
Chinese Culture Club
Quill & Scroll (Journalism Honor Society)
Corvus (Yearbook) Ragin' Ravens
Diversity Club RavensBuild (Habitat for Humanity)
Bibliomania
Nevarmore (Student Newspaper)
Chinese Culture Club
Quill & Scroll (Journalism Honor Society)
Corvus (Yearbook) Ragin' Ravens
Diversity Club RavensBuild (Habitat for Humanity)
ECO - Environmental Conservation Organization Rhythm and Poetry
Fellowship of Christian Athletes
International Thespian Society (Honor Society)
Youth and Government
Journalism Club
St. Baldrick's Club
Key Club and Student Government Association (SGA)
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Arts

(12)
Acting
Chorus
Drama
Performing
Production
Theater
Acting
Chorus
Drama
Performing
Production
Theater
Art History
Drawing
Painting
Photography
Portfolio
2D Art
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Basic Info

Co-ed
Day S. Grades: PK-12
Urban
IB: No
ESL: No
Year Founded: 1862
Campus Size: 134 acres
Religious Affiliation: No Religious Affiliation

Application Info

Deadline: 01/15
Recommended
4.5
Recommended
Boarding
Chatham Hall United States Flag
4.7

Frequently Ask Questions about Ravenscroft School

Tell me a bit about Ravenscroft School.
Ravenscroft School is Co-ed private day school located in North Carolina, US. It was founded 1862 , and currently has about 1250 students, 2.00% of whom are international students.

For more official information, please visit http://www.ravenscroft.org.
Does Ravenscroft School have rigorous academic requirements?
Ravenscroft School is offering 22 AP courses.

In recent years, 29 of their students score 4 and 5 in AP exams.

Ravenscroft School also have 80% of faculties whose degrees are master and above.
Where do Ravenscroft School students typically go for their colleges?
In 2023, some students attended University of Chicago, Duke University, Amherst College, Washington University in St. Louis and Columbia University.
What is the application requirement for Ravenscroft School?
Similar to most private schools in the US, Ravenscroft School’s typical admission requirements include school transcript, recommendation letter, application essay, and interview (often optional, but highly recommended).
What is the latest tuition for Ravenscroft School’s Co-ed student?
The total fee for Ravenscroft School in 2024 is $32,150 which typically includes tuition, boarding fee, student management fee and a few other fees associated with managing international students.

For more information, please contact school’s admission team at admissions@ravenscroft.org .
Where is Ravenscroft School located?
Ravenscroft School is located in the State of North Carolina of USA. The closest major city is Raleigh, which is about 7 miles away from school. Most families can choose Raleigh-Durham International Airport to travel in and out of school.
How popular is Ravenscroft School on FindingSchool network?
Based on FindingSchool monthly traffic data as well as onsite search record, Ravenscroft School is among the most popular schools, within top 312 for all schools on FindingSchool.

Also Ravenscroft School has been favorited by 55 users.
How to start with an application with Ravenscroft School?
The first stop is to carefully review the school profile on FindingSchool to learn more about Ravenscroft School. Most of them are directly provided by the school.

Also it is highly recommended to visit Ravenscroft School’s official site: http://www.ravenscroft.org or call them at 919-847-0900.
Please share a few nearby schools that are close to Ravenscroft School?
Yes, here are few: St. Davids School, North Raleigh Christian Academy and Saint Mary's School.

The closest major city is Raleigh. You can find out more schools near Raleigh here.
What is the FindingSchool rating for Ravenscroft School?
The overall rating for Ravenscroft School is A-.

The section ratings of Ravenscroft School are:
A- for Matriculation
A for Academics
A- for Extracurriculum
A- for Community
B for Students and Parents reviews

Nearby City

Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina, is renowned for its prestigious universities, including North Carolina State University. Together with Chapel Hill and Durham, it forms the Research Triangle, a hub for technology and academic research. The city is home to historic landmarks like the North Carolina State Capitol, a Greek Revival-style building from the 19th century, featuring a statue of George Washington dressed as a Roman general in its rotunda. Raleigh’s blend of educational institutions, cultural attractions, and vibrant tech industry makes it a dynamic and growing city.

Population (2022) 392,552
Cost of Living Lower than the national average 4%

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