Capital Projects

At Ransom Everglades, we understand that exceptional programs and outstanding people deserve equally remarkable places. Our campuses are designed to foster creativity, critical thinking and collaboration – spaces that challenge students to engage deeply with their education and prepare for an ever-evolving world. From historic structures that honor our past to cutting-edge facilities that shape our future, Ransom Everglades has always prioritized building for the next generation.

Now, the school is turning its attention to other critical areas of student life – expanding its commitment to the humanities, reimagining athletic spaces and creating environments that inspire the next generation of leaders and changemakers with the upcoming Humanities Center, Middle School Athletic Complex and Upper School Stadium.

At Ransom Everglades, we are building more than just buildings – we are building the future. We invite you to be part of this exciting journey by supporting these transformative places that will inspire students for generations to come.

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Constance & Miguel Fernandez STEM Center

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Humanities Center

Consistent with our rich history and long-standing commitment to the humanities, the school is investing in a new $30 million Humanities Center, funded in part by a generous gift from Brett and Daniel Sundheim P ’26 ’28.

The building will feature flexible classrooms, cutting-edge technology and spaces designed to foster collaboration and deep inquiry. This new space will enable our students to engage with history, literature, philosophy and ethics in innovative ways, continuing the tradition of academic excellence that has defined Ransom Everglades for over a century.

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“At a time when distraction has become the norm, spaces that invite reflection and sustained focus are rare. Giving students the chance to slow down, to wrestle with big ideas and to find meaning in their lives – that’s not just valuable, it’s transformative.”

– Jen Nero, Humanities Department Chair
“How do you want a student to feel when they walk into your classroom? How are you going to distinguish yourself? Every classroom that you walk in should make you feel something.”

– Rachel Rodriguez, Head of School
“It’s exciting to support the next generation as they explore their interests, discover their strengths and use those strengths to do something meaningful. Ransom Everglades has always been an amazing school; this offers a chance to take it to the next level.”

– Brett and Daniel Sundheim P ’26 ’28

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Junior's plan for eyeglass dispenser wins RE Business Challenge
3/3/2026
A junior's plan to put kiosks that dispense prescription glasses at airports won Ransom Everglades 13th Business Challenge at the Posner Lecture Hall on March 2. William Hyde '27 proposed AeroSpec as a fast solution to the problem of lost or forgotten glasses while traveling, and alumni judges Joaquin de Soto '97, Allison Freidin '03, Jorge A. Gross '07 and Isabella Ulloa '11 awarded him first place and advancement to the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship regional competition in April.
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Lights, Camera, Ransom Everglades! Film Fest returns to RE
5/6/2025
This spring, Ransom Everglades students stepped behind the camera – and into the director’s chair – as part of an exciting expansion of film studies in the upper school curriculum. Two innovative courses, Dr. Corinne Rhyner’s Screenwriting and the interdisciplinary Estudio de Cine, co-taught by Dr. Jeannine Lehr and Dr. Beatriz Marques, offered upperclass students the opportunity to study cinema not just as spectators, but as storytellers and filmmakers.
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National Poetry Month at RE: Poetry Flourishes at Ransom Everglades
5/6/2025
Corinne Rhyner

At Ransom Everglades, April means more than spring – it signals a month-long celebration of poetry. Now in its fourth year, the school’s National Poetry Month programming continues to grow, offering students, alumni, and the wider RE community opportunities to write, delight, and connect through verse. Throughout the month, students were invited to respond to weekly poetry prompts or submit original work of their choosing online to the school's NaPoMo @ RE website.
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Award-winning financial journalist advises on ethics in business and journalism
4/15/2025
Financial reporter and bestselling author David Faber addressed upper school students on the topic of ethics in business and journalism as part of the Holzman Center of Applied Ethics Speaker Series. Holzman Center Director John A. King Jr. interviewed Faber from the Lewis Family Auditorium stage before turning the questions over to students. Faber's April 7 visit to RE took place at the height of tariff anxiety and market volatility, providing fodder for pointed questions and follow ups.
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Sundheims' record gift to support new humanities building
4/14/2025
Daniel Sundheim has always been a numbers guy. He went from college to Wall Street, spent more than a decade overseeing billions in assets, then started his own highly successful global investment firm. Yet when asked to name skills central to his career success, he rattles off core components of a humanities education: writing, critical thinking and public speaking.

That belief in the foundational importance of a liberal arts education, which is shared by his wife of 20 years, Brett Sundheim, inspired the couple’s $7.5 million gift for a new humanities building on the upper school campus at Ransom Everglades School.
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Students present real-world projects from AP Psychology and Applied Ethics classes
4/13/2025
Students in Ransom Everglades' AP Psychology classes presented their research posters on how current events can be interpreted using social psychology theories and phenomena during the 2025 Social Psychology Symposium in the Posner Lecture Hall on April 3. Just two weeks later, students in the Applied Ethics class shared their critical understanding of ethics with posters and presentations examining real-world issues at the 2025 Ethics Gallery Walk in the Posner Lecture Hall in the Constance and Miguel Fernandez STEM Center.
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Upper schoolers sweep top awards at Poetry Night at the Barnacle
4/13/2025
RE student-poets swept the top three awards presented at the second annual Poetry Night at The Barnacle on April 9: Miguel Kumar '25 earned first place; Alexa Charouhis '27, second; and Patrick Keedy Brown '26 scored third place as Sofie Delic '28 and Arhan Shah '27 earned finalist recognition (top 15). All read their poems aloud on the lawn of The Barnacle Historic State Park with 10 other finalists from five South Florida Schools. Nearly 600 poems were submitted in recognition of National Poetry Month.
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Middle school students enjoy class trips to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico
4/10/2025
Sixth and seventh graders traveled to Washington, D.C., and eighth graders to Puerto Rico for exciting and immersive class trips from April 2-5. Students visited national monuments, memorials and museums in Washington and they traveled to the rainforest, historic landmarks, beaches and the bay in Puerto Rico, and also found time to volunteer at a local elementary school. Assistant Head of the Middle School Jess Merrick described the trips as "action-packed and enriching."
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Plan for high-tech water bottle wins Business Plan Challenge
4/3/2025
A business plan for a solar-powered, eco-friendly, dual-filtration water bottle that tracks hydration earned first place at the 12th annual Ransom Everglades Business Challenge March 11 at Posner Lecture Hall. Nina Galinsky ’26 and Blake Langer ’26 offered a passionate and thoughtful pitch for “Solar Sip,” a high-tech water bottle that wowed the RE alumni panel of judges and advanced to the Innovate South Florida 2025 High School Business Plan Competition on April 10 at Miami Dade College.
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RE middle school celebrate reading with OBODOS and author Jasmine Warga
4/3/2025
Author Jasmine Warga shared insights about her bestselling young adult novel A Rover's Story with middle school students at the seventh annual One Book, One Day, One School (OBODOS) event at RE's middle school on April 2. The renowned writer took the Swenson Hall stage to share her personal story and also chatted one-on-one with students as she signed their books. The students jointly read A Rover's Story in preparation for OBODOS, a now highly anticipated celebration of reading that includes a variety of activities designed to complement that year's selected book.
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CONTACT US

To learn more about supporting capital projects and naming opportunities within.
advancement@ransomeverglades.org
305 460 8859

List of 2 members.

Melissa Bonafonte

Associate Director of Advancement

University of Arizona - B.A.
Thunderbird School of Global Management - M.B.A.
Victoria Williamson 88

Director of Advancement

Boston College - B.A.

Middle School

2045 South Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Phone: 305 250 6850

Upper School

3575 Main Highway, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Phone: 305 460 8800

Accreditations and Memberships

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. It is rated the top private school in Miami and among the 10 private schools in North America. 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.

Ransom Everglades School®, The RE Way®, RE Pathways® and Bowden Fellowships in the Humanities™ are trademarks of Ransom Everglades School.

RE founder Paul Ransom, circa 1903