Accomplishments and Awards


SCHOOL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Approved by Homeland Security to authorize I-20’s for international students to obtain F-1 visas to study at our school.

Repeatedly ranked as one of the top two private high schools in the tri-state area.

The only K-12 school exclusively serving gifted students in the state of Ohio.

The Schilling School has the highest average SAT score among Greater Cincinnati public and private high schools according to Cincinnati Magazine.

The Ohio Department of Education and the Canadian Department of Education requested permission to use the Schilling curriculum as a model.

The school’s fencing team has won the league championship of the Southwest Ohio High School Fencing Association numerous times.

 

STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

A Schilling graduate, in her sophomore year at Cal Tech, was one of only two summer fellowship recipients in charge of data retrieval and analysis for the NASA solar satellite investigation project (STEREO).

Two Schilling students have received perfect scores on the National Latin Exam.

A board game patent was awarded to a Schilling Lower School student, possibly the youngest patent holder in American history.

Five Schilling writers from grades 2, 8, 9, and 12 have been published.

Upper level science students from Schilling attended the American Association for the Advancement of Science Conference in Washington, DC, and spent time with Stephen J. Gould, whose books had been studied in class and with whom they had corresponded.

 

 

FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

A Math/Science Department chair, who taught Calculus, Differential Equations, Advanced Physical Mathematics, and Differential Phenomena, was nominated for a Nobel Prize. This brought him international acclaim, with his work featured in scientific books and international journals, including cover articles in Science and Naturwissenschaften.  He has more than 50 scientific publications to his credit and is internationally regarded as an expert in Auger spectroscopy.

An Molecular Biology teacher was a researcher at the University of Cincinnati Medical School and taught medical students and undergraduates. Yet, she finds teaching gifted children at the Schilling School more stimulating intellectually.

A U.S. Government and Law and Economics teacher is an attorney who comes to us from private practice.

An Innovation and Creativity teacher was a retired professional engineer who received the highest engineering career award and taught graduate and undergraduate courses.

A Comparative Religion teacher, prior to moving to the Greater Cincinnati area, was the denominational chaplain at Yale University.

An Architecture teacher was the Director of the School of Architecture and Interior Design of the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati.

An Oil Painting teacher’s painting of Emperor Tsar Alexander II Nikolaevich, Tsar of Russia, and Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States, became a part of the permanent collection of the Tsarkoye Selo Museum, Saint Petersburg Russia in January, 2008.

A middle school history teacher was named SAR Ohio American History Teacher of the Year and was ranked 3rd in the nation.

Members of our faculty have graduated from top tier colleges and universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn, Columbia, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Emory, Vanderbilt, Indiana University, University of Virginia, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina, Brandeis, Furman, University of California San Diego, University of Illinois, and the London School of Economics & Political Science.

Members of our faculty have taught at Yale, Penn, Brown, Michigan, Purdue, Indiana University, University of California Santa Barbara, U.S. Army, Miami University, Northern Kentucky University, University of Toledo, and the University of Cincinnati.