Laurel girls today. Leaders tomorrow.
Welcome to Laurel.
Founded in 1896, Laurel is a nationally recognized, college preparatory, independent day school for girls, Kindergarten through Grade 12, with a co-educational Early Childhood School. Laurel’s Center for Research on Girls puts the world’s best research to work for girls.
A LETTER FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL
Welcome to Laurel!
I’m so glad you’re exploring Laurel more deeply. As one of the newest members of this community, I can assure you that the best way to truly understand Laurel is to spend time here. When you do, you’ll see how all our students, from Early Learners through Twelfth Grade, love learning, lift each other up, and strive to reach their full potential.
What makes Laurel distinct is the way we pair academic excellence with care for each student’s strengths, passions and growth. Whether in the woods at the Butler Campus, in a science lab, on the stage, or on the playing field, our students engage in learning that is hands-on, challenging and connected to the world around them.
Laurel’s Center for Research on Girls keeps us at the forefront of understanding how girls learn best, ensuring our students grow in confidence and creativity while developing as leaders. The arts, athletics and vibrant student life round out an experience that builds both skill and character.
Most of all, Laurel is a community of students, faculty, parents and alumnae who are invested in one another and in the mission that guides us: to inspire each girl to fulfill her promise and to better the world. I can’t wait for you to experience it for yourself.
I look forward to seeing you on campus soon,
Christina Breen Head of School
Who are Laurel girls?
Laurel girls stand out. They are ambitious, take risks, and welcome challenges.
They are individuals who hone their intellect, develop their confidence, and discover their passions. Laurel girls embrace over a century of tradition and develop bonds of friendship that last a lifetime. They are young women who become leaders in their colleges, industries, and communities.
Two- Campus Advantage
Laurel’s suburban-rural advantage gives our girls an edge.
With childhood needs and development in mind, our girls are at the right place at the right time. At our Lyman Campus in Shaker Heights, Kindergarten, First and Second Graders begin their journey through Primary School. Third, Fourth and Fifth Graders complete the Primary years just seven miles away at our 150-acre Butler Campus in Novelty. Girls return to the Lyman Campus for Middle and Upper School to embark on Sixth through Twelfth Grades. While we benefit from being a two-campus school that provides flexible indoor and outdoor learning spaces, we are one school when it comes to our philosophical approach to our students.
L Y MAN C A MPU S , SHAKER HEIGHTS
Nestled in suburban Shaker Heights, the Lyman Campus opened in 1928 and covers 11 acres. Because our community shares one complex, our faculty and students delight in crossdivisional activities. Younger students find role models not only in the adults who guide and encourage them, but also in the older girls who assist their teachers, serve as their reading buddies and engage with them in after-school programming.
Lake Library for Early Childhood and Primary School
Crile Library Hub for Learning and Research for Sixth GradeTwelfth Grade
Ruhlman Resource Center for Culture and Community
Two gymnasiums
Bouldering wall
Dance studio
Spacious multi-purpose room
State-of-the-art science labs for all divisions
2D and 3D art studios, photography lab, and darkroom
Collaboratory for Design Thinking and STEAM initiatives
Primary School STEAM Lab
350-seat Chapel Theater
Extensive outdoor play area
L Y MAN C A MPUS FACILITIES
BUTLER C A MPU S , NOVELTY
The Butler Campus features 150 acres of woodlands, waterways, and world-class athletic facilities. All year long, Third-Fifth Grade Primary School students spend their days engaged with hands-on, interdisciplinary learning, while Kindergarten-Second Grade and Middle School students take advantage of the campus lodges during Learning at Butler Days and immersion experiences. Middle and Upper School athletes train and compete on our state-of-the-art fields, tennis courts and in the fitness center. Girls in all divisions tackle Butler’s Project Adventure Course, a series of high- and low-rope elements. Butler is also home to our Outdoor Prekindergarten class.
BUTLER C A MPUS FACILITIES
Eight tennis courts
One softball diamond
Quarter mile all-weather track and field
Four regulation grass playing fields
One state-of-the-art turf field
16,000-square-foot Fitness and Wellness Center with state-ofthe-art equipment
Three miles of walking trails
Magic Tree House based on the books by Mary Pope Osborne
Five yurts for outdoor education
Reid and North Lodges
two all-season facilities equipped with indoor-outdoor fireplaces
3,000-square-foot majestic Conway Pavilion
Learning pavilion with fireplace 15-element Project Adventure Course (8-low, 7-high)
11,000-square-foot Ruhlman Family Center (Opening in January 2026)
Community & Belonging
We empower girls to claim their voices and to live the school’s mission.
The Laurel community is a powerful one composed of standout girls who are motivated, intelligent, resilient and creative; and faculty members who inspire and encourage. We are a school that empowers young women and allows them to be their authentic selves as members of this community.
Laurel is proud to be a community of belonging. We are committed to creating a school community in which every student, regardless of race, faith, socioeconomic status, culture, national origin, or sexual orientation feels safe, valued and respected.
Laurel’s Center for Research on Girls
Putting the world’s best research to work for girls.
Founded in 2007, Laurel’s Center for Research on Girls (LCRG) studies how girls learn, think and feel and makes its ground-breaking findings available to girls’ parents, educators and advocates. LCRG has become a nationally recognized resource for independent schools.
At Laurel, LCRG puts into practice research that connects exceptional academic outcomes with social and emotional well-being. The Laurel curriculum reflects research on purpose, the fundamental features of inclusive classrooms, and proven approaches for engaging and retaining girls in STEM fields. The value of LCRG is central to each Laurel girl’s experience.
Athletics
Go Gators! #LS4GatorNation
Research shows that girls who participate in athletics have higher confidence and self-esteem. Laurel athletes develop the time-management and leadership skills, discipline and resilience that will serve them well in their academic work and throughout their lives. Additionally, the commitment girls feel to their teammates and their sport has lasting effects beyond their time at Laurel.
Our student-athletes have the opportunity for skill development in several sports beginning in Kindergarten through P. E. and youth sports. Then in Middle and Upper School, they compete against top opponents, work with incredible coaches, get exposure to various colleges, and receive personalized training with our full-time strength and conditioning staff in our state-of-the-art facilities at Butler Campus. Since 2019 we have matriculated 20 students to college athletic programs and have sent 26 teams to states.
MIDDLE SCHOOL SPORTS
Cross Country
Field Hockey
Tennis
Volleyball
Basketball
Swimming
Lacrosse
Softball
Track & Field
UPPER SCHOOL SPORTS
Cross Country
Field Hockey
Golf
Soccer
Tennis
Volleyball
Basketball
Indoor Track & Field
Swimming
Lacrosse
Softball
Track & Field
Gymnastics
Visual & Per forming Ar ts
The arts are an integral part of the Laurel experience.
Through art history, music theory, dance, drama, drawing, painting, photography, computer design and more, students leave Laurel with an appreciation for the arts and with the skills to enjoy the arts for the rest of their lives.
From the sounds of dancing feet to vocal ensembles to full-stage productions, Laurel students are engaged in the performing arts from Kindergarten through Grade 12. The performing arts faculty encourages every student to discover her artistic passion and to develop her voice with confidence.
The visual arts faculty guide girls through both traditional and contemporary applications of diverse mediums from printmaking to computer art. From a very early age, students experiment with a variety of materials ranging from metals to ceramics to fabric culminating in an Upper School curriculum rich in creative expression.
Primary School
Kindergarten - Grade 5
In Laurel’s Primary School, innovative teachers design curriculum that dare each girl to step up, to challenge herself, to reach beyond what she already knows. We partner with parents to celebrate each girl as we propel her through the remarkable transformation from curious Kindergartener to confident Fifth Grader.
The Primary years at Laurel are strategically divided into two experiences. The foundational years of Kindergarten-Second Grade are best served in our more traditional environment of the Lyman Campus, while by the time Laurel girls are in Third Grade, they are ready for more independence and new and innovative ways to hone their budding leadership skills and intellectual curiosity at our Butler Campus.
KINDERGARTEN - GRADE 2 AT THE LYMAN CAMPUS
Each jumper-clad girl experiences so much joy in her learning in Kindergarten-Second Grade! During these initial years of formal education, our girls investigate, experiment and discover through a personalized and enriched curriculum. As each girl moves from Kindergarten through Second Grade, she builds on her preparation from the previous year and brings her academic skills and her confidence to new heights. Girls complete this first stage of Laurel’s Primary School as blossoming scientists, writers, mathematicians and artists who know they are an integral part of the larger community.
GRADES 3-5 AT THE BUTLER CAMPUS
At the end of Second Grade, girls trade their jumpers for boots and a bicycle as they head to the Butler Campus for a curriculum rich in handson experiential learning. At Butler, learning happens outdoors, and the Third-Fifth Graders engage in a place-based curriculum that invites them to grapple with concepts from multiple perspectives. Students develop autonomy as they continue to develop intellectual strengths, academic skills, and resilience as they deepen their engagement with the environment through inquiry-based studies of the 150-acre Butler Campus. This experience for 8-11-year-old girls is unmatched by any other in Northeast Ohio.
PRIMARY SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
PRIMARY SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
INTERDISCIPLINAR Y LEARNING AND IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCES
Students learn best when instruction is relationship-based, and they retain information when learning is engaging and relevant, and feedback is offered in real time. Grade-level themes shape deep investigations of big ideas and help girls add strength to their understanding by connecting learning in each subject. In Grades K-2, learning is hands-on and extends to specials so students can explore themes through multiple disciplines, bringing the content to life. Kindergarteners engage with the world around them through their study of homes and habitats; First Graders think about their place in the world as they study families—now, long ago, near and far; and Second Graders focus on natural resources and how they impact how people live.
Place-based, experiential learning takes center stage in Grades 3-5. The Butler Campus offers unparalleled facilities and resources to execute interdisciplinary units at each grade level including National Parks and Play & Playgrounds in Third Grade; Power & Purpose, interdependence in Colonial America, and The Suffrage Movement in Fourth Grade; and Our Place in the Universe, World Ecologies, and Human Impact in Fifth Grade.
PRIMARY SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
ENVISION® MATHEMATICS
The Primary School uses enVision Mathematics as it combines problem-based learning and visual learning to deepen students’ conceptual understanding, math fluency, and the ability to transfer that knowledge and skill to new applications. The enVision Mathematics curriculum focuses on student understanding with Problem-Based Learning and Visual Learning; and provides formative and summative assessments that allow instruction to be specifically tailored for each girl from support to enrichment. The enVision Mathematics program is based on the national academic standards in mathematics endorsed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). These measures include both content and mathematical practices that outline the areas in which each girl should be able to show proficiency by the end of her current grade level.
LEADERSHIP
Leadership is a thread that runs Kindergarten through Fifth Grade–from daily or weekly class-room jobs or stewardship roles to being role models for younger Buddies. Primary students are called to make their classroom, campus and school a better place by upholding important community norms and standards for behavior and contributing to the culture of our school in meaningful and productive ways. Second and Fifth Graders have particular roles that they fulfill as leaders—from class announcements to additional community expectations. Primary School student leaders are empowered to not only fulfill their roles but to look for opportunities to improve or enhance the culture and community.
PRIMARY SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
COMMUNITY BUILDING
While the days are mostly spent at Lyman Campus for K-Grade 2 and at Butler Campus for Grades 3-5, days are planned throughout the year for each group to spend time at both campuses. Kindergarten-Second Grade students head to the Butler Campus at least once each month for LAB (Learning at Butler) Days to enjoy interdisciplinary activities that tie into classroom work. They are challenged to tackle problems and create solutions while engaging in animal tracking, understanding the physics of why snowshoes work, testing water quality during pond study all while spending time with their Butler Buddies engaging in nature, art or reading. Buddies get to spend even more time together when Third-Fifth Grade students make periodic visits to the Lyman Campus for all-school assemblies and celebrations and to work in the Collaboratory, Laurel’s makerspace. While our Primary School takes shape across two campuses, our community thrives as both younger and older girls spend purposeful time together.
BIKING PROGRAM
Learning to ride a bike is a cornerstone of the Kindergarten-Second Grade physical education curriculum. Biking is a great way to build skills, confidence, and resilience. During P.E. class, students work on biking skills and every Kindergarten-Second Grader can ride a 2-wheeler before leaving the Lyman Campus! When girls arrive at the Butler Campus in Third Grade, they are poised to take their bike, from our school-provided Bike Fleet, and use it as her main mode of transportation to get around the 150-acre campus. In addition to riding the bikes to further develop gross motor skills and learn proper biking traffic signals, Third-Fifth Graders learn bicycle maintenance and the engineering principles behind how bikes work.
Middle School
Grades 6 - 8
You only need a moment in the North Wing of our Lyman Campus building to sense the bustling energy of scientists, artists, engineers, writers and thinkers diving deep into their learning. The Middle School experience at Laurel is based on the work of our Center for Research on Girls on how girls learn best. Experiential learning balances timehonored traditions, and strategies are tailored to each girl as she finds and develops her voice. Girls work on leadership skills as they collaborate with teachers and classmates to take ownership of their learning.
They create and conduct experiments in science, they build and draw models to visualize concepts in math, they memorize and act out scenes from Shakespearean plays, and they investigate and debate constitutional issues. Middle School girls at Laurel learn by doing, love choice and rise to creative challenges.
MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
IMMERSION WEEKS
Immersion Weeks are entirely experiential, interdisciplinary and community-based and allow girls to put the skills they learn in each of their classes to the test. The Greek Olympics culminates the Sixth Graders’ learning about the Classics and Classical Studies and during Space Week, they experiment with engineering their own rockets. During Tinkering Week, Seventh Graders redesign animatronics, tinker with language to change meaning and even experiment with ingredients to create new recipes. During Nation Creation, Eighth Graders explore the challenges faced by settlers in North America. Girls design a government, write a Bill of Rights, create an economy, and later in the year, operate as nation groups in a simulated United Nations.
ACADEMIC COMPETITIONS
Seventh and Eighth Graders may train to compete in district, regional and state Power of the Pen competitions. The Middle School Power of the Pen team is consistently awarded top honors at the State level. Students enrolled in the Robotics or Speech and Debate electives compete in local, regional and state competitions. The Robotics team has competed at the State competition almost every year since its inception. Middle School mathematicians have the opportunity to participate in several math competitions each year including the Ohio Math League competition and the Greater Cleveland Council of Teachers of Mathematics competition.
MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
CHANGEMAKER PROJECT
The Changemaker Project is a research-based passion project in which Eighth Graders probe areas of interest and refine their research realms by interviewing an expert in a field of interest, defining a question to answer, and outlining a plan of action. In choosing how their research and efforts will help to change the world, students become experts in a new area of competence. Students keep a record of their learning through assigned journal prompts but otherwise develop individualized milestones for this half-year project. As the project culminates, students write about and present to classmates about what they have accomplished!
PROGRAMMING & ROBOTICS
Laurel’s enthusiasm for programming and robotics is woven throughout a girl’s Middle School experience. Sixth Graders use remotely operated robots in Battlebots competitions, some choosing to compete locally in a Battlebot Throwdown. The Computer Science course in Seventh and Eighth Grades teaches students coding, problem-solving and computational thinking.
CLUBS & TEAMS
Clubs and Teams for Sixth-Eighth Graders introduce girls to new experiences. Offerings span a wide array of choices and have included options such as First LEGO League Robotics, Middle School Newspaper, American Sign Language, Yoga, Money Matters, Junior Model UN and Speech and Debate.
MIDDLE SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
LEADERSHIP
Elected and organic leadership opportunities abound for Laurel Middle Schoolers. The Middle School Student Government runs Assembly each month, infusing the communitybuilding time with student-led games and speakers girls are inspired to invite to campus. Student leaders enlist the support of classmates for service projects designed to build community, on campus and around Cleveland. Green and White spirit team captains help to plan and run competitions throughout the school year, culminating in Green and White Day. Representatives from Seventh and Eighth Grade represent Laurel in a yearlong Cleveland Council of Independent School (CCIS) Leadership program.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Service opportunities begin on campus and extend into greater Cleveland. An annual Middle School Clothing Swap, for instance, with proceeds benefiting local women’s support organizations, is an opportunity for girls to design, promote, and see through a project that allows them to use their abilities and understanding, as tweens and teens, to positively impact others.
Upper School
Grades 9 - 12
In Laurel’s Upper School, girls come into their intellectual power and move towards solidifying their passions and goals.
We know that girls learn best when their learning experiences are experiential, interdisciplinary and community-based and when their course work allows them to pursue interests and complete meaningful work. Whether a girl has a passion for STEM Research, thrives on lively discussions of the themes in British literature or loves the challenge of multivariable calculus, our Upper School course progression is designed to allow a girl to pursue an individualized path tailored to her intellectual passions.
Laurel faculty and advisors are guides and mentors as girls find their voices and build their leadership skills, resilience and compassion all while navigating the rigors of a demanding curriculum.
U PP ER SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
U PP ER SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
CAPSTONE SCHOLARS PROGRAM
Laurel’s Capstone Scholars Program provides enterprising and motivated students with opportunities to tackle real-world challenges and to create real-world solutions. Capstone cultivates purpose, innovation and leadership by providing students with the time and resources they need to engage in active learning through inquiry, research and networking. Topics span disciplines, including civic engagement, entrepreneurship, global studies, STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) and the arts. During a two-year process, Capstone students explore subjects through guided research, intellectual discourse, relevant internships and purposeful off-campus activities. Using expert guidance from teachers, local and national mentors, and support from peers, each student pursues a Research Focus based on her individual interests.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Entrepreneurship means fostering in girls a spirit of possibility coupled with business savvy. Through our Entrepreneurship Program and our partnership with the Veale Youth Entrepreneurship Forum, Laurel girls have the opportunity to develop and present original business ideas or use social entrepreneurship to solve problems in the community.
Laurel girls have seen their ideas come to fruition through winning school-sponsored and local competitions. Whether pitching a new business idea to C-level executives from the Cleveland Cavaliers; joining the Student Investment Committee, which manages a $15,000 investment fund; or running One Coffee Circle, Laurel’s student-run coffee roasting business and on-campus café; Laurel girls are problem solvers—often collaborating to bring ambitious, real-world businesses to life.
U PP ER SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
PROTÉGÉ PROGRAM
Laurel School’s Protégé Program creates opportunities for students in Grades 9 -12 to explore career paths in which they have interest. No matter the interest, the Protégé Team individually mentors students along the Protégé Pathway, allowing them to observe individuals in their interested field, explore the various branches of specific professions, research and reflect on academic journals, documentaries and books and conclude with a presentation to the Laurel community.
ONE SCHOOLHOUSE
Laurel School is a founding member of the Online School for Girls, now known as One Schoolhouse. One Schoolhouse is a consortium of over 250 national and international schools that share a commitment to online education as a means to expand programs and offerings for students and faculty alike. The school’s guiding principles are: connection, collaboration, creativity and application.
PASSPORT TRAVEL
In order to grow global citizens, Laurel’s Global Education Program supports cultural competence through trips, exchanges and curriculum. Educated global citizens bring a broader perspective to their studies and learn to interact with their peers in a global arena. Laurel offers several Passport trips per year that take place during school breaks or the summer months. Passport trip destinations have included national destinations like New Orleans, Louisiana and Ely, Minnesota, and global destinations like France, Northern Spain, Italy, Ireland, Turkey, Greece, South Africa, China and Australia.
U PP ER SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES
Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO) is an international organization whose mission is to engage students in an examination of identity and history in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. In 2014, Laurel joined the Facing History Innovative Schools Network which now includes over 140 schools. With its tagline “People Make Choices; Choices Make History,” FHAO emphasizes vocabulary that encourages personal responsibility and empathy, qualities that align with Laurel’s mission and values. Each FHAO unit begins with an understanding of identity: Who am I and how will who I am affect the actions I take or choose not to take?
CONCENTRATIONS
Concentrations at Laurel are guided pathways that point the way for students interested in the deeper and more comprehensive exploration of an area of academic focus as they progress through their Upper School careers. Each concentration presents interested students with a menu of options in each of three areas: elective academic coursework; co-curricular participation; and presentation to an authentic audience. Students who complete the required number of options from each category in a designated Concentration receive a certificate and added transcript credential upon graduation. Concentrations
Offered: Entrepreneurship; Writing, Rhetoric, and Artistic Expression; and Sustainability and Changemaking.
U PP ER SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Implicit in our mission statement is the requirement that each student actively engages with the community outside of Laurel by completing a minimum of 50 hours of service before her Senior year as a requirement for graduation; however, most girls exceed the 50 hours. Our hope is that each girl will leave Laurel with a better understanding of what it means to be involved in one’s community and a strong desire to better the world through a continued commitment to using one’s time and talent on behalf of others.
LEADERSHIP
Building confidence is the mainstay of a Laurel education. Our alumnae go on to stand out at highly-selective colleges, run businesses and better the world, in part because of the leadership opportunities they were afforded during their time at Laurel. Whether elected to a position of leadership in Student Government, establishing a club or school organization, managing a stage production or shepherding her basketball team to victory, there are endless ways for a Laurel girl to lead in the school community and to find her voice.
COMMUNAL SPACES FOR LEARNING
At Laurel, we believe learning is a lifelong process. That’s why we offer resources to our students and faculty to develop evidence-based skills to grow as learners, teachers and productive community members. The Crile Library Hub houses workshops, peer tutors, Capstone programming, and more; the Ruhlman Resource Center for Culture and Community provides programming and training on restorative practices, inclusivity, justice, and equity, and critical opportunities for civil discourse so each Laurel community member can fulfill her promise to better the world.
THE LAUREL VALUES STATEMENT:
Committed to building a just and inclusive world, Laurel girls are courageous, creative, ethical and compassionate.
College Guidance
Laurel’s approach to college guidance is highly individualized, and our mission is to help each student find colleges that best match their interests, talents and goals. We work closely with our students to help them understand the college process, develop a tailored list of schools to explore and prepare for the appropriate standardized tests.
The College Guidance office provides support on college essays, and reviews every application prior to submission to ensure that each student is presenting an authentic narrative to emerge in a competitive college admissions landscape.
The college counselors meet with the Seniors regularly, and are also available to parents by phone, email and in person as often as needed. Counselors actively engage with Juniors throughout the year, and talk with Ninth and Tenth Graders—and their parents—periodically, to provide information, dispel myths and reassure them that they will be ready for the college process when the time comes.
Click here to see our most recent matriculation list as well as a representative selection of colleges and universities to which Laurel girls have been admitted in recent years.
ALUMNAE LAUREL LEADERS AT LARGE
Whether entrepreneurs, doctors, scientists, teachers, designers, artists, engineers, authors, lawyers, pharmacists, civic activists or volunteers, Laurel alumnae inhabit nearly all careers and corners of the world helping to make it a better place. They have charted unlimited paths since graduation. Our alumnae and the journeys that they have taken speak to the essence of a Laurel education and what makes this school and the community of women who call it their own distinctive.
CAREY JAROS ’96
P’28, P’30, P’33
Brown University, AB Public Policy 2000
Harvard Business School, MBA 2005
Chief Executive Officer, GOJO/Purell
SHANIKA RANASINGHE
ESPARAZ ’05
P’35, P’38
Northwestern University, BA Anthropology 2009
Wright State University Medical School, MD 2013
Residency at Boston University Medical Center for Ophthalmology Board Certified Ophthalmologist, Cataract Surgeon and Medical Retinal Specialist
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at NEOMED
IVY KRISLOV ’10
Carnegie Mellon University, BA
Creative Writing, BS Technical Writing 2014
Senior Program Manager Lead on Team Xbox at Microsoft
Click here to read about more of our remarkable Laurel leaders.
LAYNE ESKRIDGE ’00
Howard University, BA Telecommunications Management 2004
New York University, MA Film/ Cinema/Video Studies 2007
President POV Entertainment
Former Creative Executive at Apple TV and Netflix
CHEYANA RANASINGHE ’10
P’40
St Bonaventure University/George
Washington University School of Medicine 4+4 B.S. & M D. Dual Program, 2014, 2018
American Medical Women’s Association Award for Academic Achievement, 2018
Residency at The Cleveland Clinic in Dermatology
General and Cosmetic Dermatologist at The Cleveland Clinic
ALEX CADE ’17
Yale University, BS
Mechanical Engineering 2022
Yale basketball team
Edison Scholar, GE Aviation
LAUREL AT A GLANCE
Studentteacher ratio: 6 :1
4 , 300+ Alumnae around the world
Studentcomputer ratio: 1 :1 45
School systems represented
School mascot: G at or $5 . 2M
Top All- Girls School in Ohio
Financial assistance awarded
30+
Student-led clubs and organizations
Varsit y spor ts: 13
College-bound students: 1 0 0%
ACCREDITATIONS AND ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
Independent School Association of the Central States (ISACS)
Ohio State Department of Education
National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS)
International Coalition of Girls Schools (ICGS)
Ohio Association of Independent Schools (OAIS)
Cleveland Council of Independent Schools (CCIS)
Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE)
Cum Laude Society
The College Board
One Schoolhouse (founding member)
Educational Records Bureau (ERB)
Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA)
Independent School Data Exchange (INDEX)
For more information or to schedule a tour, contact us at 2 1 6 . 46 4. 0 94 6 or Admissions@LaurelSchool.org
Laurel also has a co-ed Early Childhood program for girls and boys ages 18 months to five-years-old, as well as an Outdoor Prekindergarten at our Butler Campus for girls and boys ages four- and five-years-old.
Laurel School is proud to be an inclusive and equitable school community that welcomes students without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, handicap or disability or sexual orientation. Additionally, we actively seek faculty and staff without regard to these identifiers or gender. Your journey begins here.
