In Popular Culture
- Gracie (2007): Columbia and Columbia's Varsity Soccer Team were featured in Gracie, a film loosely based on the lives of alumni Elizabeth Shue and Andrew Shue; the film was directed by Elizabeth Shue's husband, Davis Guggenheim, and produced by the Shues (who also acted in it).
- Lauryn Hill, for her 1998 release The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was photographed in the second floor bathroom of the school's "A" wing.
- Garden State (2004): The school is both shown and referenced in this Zach Braff film, which was partly filmed in neighboring South Orange, New Jersey and Millburn, New Jersey.
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