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A special send-up for the Class of 2025

Members of the Class of 2025 walked a red carpet to enter the Ransom Everglades Middle School for the last time as eighth graders on May 28, arriving in waves by advisory for a most unusual – and very special – Eighth-Grade Send-Up. Students and their parents toured campus in small groups, greeting teachers, collecting special gifts (including Class of 2025 RE backpacks), and concluding in Swenson Hall for a number of video and award presentations – and a ceremonial visit to stage.
The send-up typically takes place in the Lewis Family Auditorium at the upper school, but the pandemic provided the impetus for middle school administrators to create this interactive, festive, partly outdoor event. Students and their parents arrived at allotted times throughout the afternoon, and each student received a specially made T-shirt, produced by a fellow student. 

The event offered students the chance to say goodbye to beloved Head of the Middle School Rachel Rodriguez, who is departing after 16 years, and math teacher Ginny Onorati, retiring after 47 years at RE. 

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Eighth-Grade Send-Up Awards

Award
Recipient
Physical Education
Julia Lewkowitz
Visual Arts
Haile Ferrentino
Performing Arts
Band
Hudson Kaplan
Dance
Alexis Barna
Strings
Sirja Joeveer
Drama
Miguel Kumar
Piper Bonnell
Tager Lehr
Musical Theatre
Jaerla Sajous
Technical Theatre Award
Griffin Nelson-Montet
English
Margaret Fitzgerald English Award
Adriana Carvalho
Harriett Grinnell Writing Award
Jordan James
Mathematics
Lois B. Styles
Solon Sun
World Languages
French Award
Daniel Mendelson
Spanish Award
Alexander Sargi
Chinese Award
Ethan Thomas
Science
8th-Grade George Kasyan Award
Max Salomon
Social Science and History
World Civilization Award
Hannah Zuckerman
Athletics
Female Student-Athlete
Adriana Carvalho
Male Student-Athlete
Noah Martin
Outstanding Female Athlete
Addison Pollock
Outstanding Male Athlete
Kaige Brown
Service Award
Mia Bouyoucef
Egyptia Green
Anya Bhandari
Citizenship Award
Sirja Joeveer
Faculty Award
Casey Manno
Ransom Cup
Ethan Sullivan
Swenson Cup
Mia Bouyoucef
 
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Phone: 305 250 6850

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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.