Summer Camps & Programs

Ravenscroft is proud to have hosted summer camps on our beautiful North Raleigh campus for 44 years.

All of our summer camps are open to the local community, and we love to welcome campers from Raleigh, Cary, Wake Forest, Durham, Chapel Hill and throughout the Triangle!

We offer programs for boys and girls that range in age from Pre-Kindergarten to 12th grade.

Online registration for summer 2025 camps, will open on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, for Ravenscroft families. Registration for the general public opens on Monday, Jan. 27. 2025.

For Summer 2025, camps will run from Monday, June 9, through Friday, Aug. 1.  

There will be no camps on Thursday, June 19, and the week of June 30-July 4.

Registration for all Ravenscroft Summer Programs will be processed via our online registration portal.

*Online registration for Summer 2025 camps will open on Jan. 15, 2025 for Ravenscroft families and on Jan. 27, 2025 for the general public.*

Beginning on Jan. 15, 2025. The online registration link will only be available in the Ravenscroft Parent Portal. This will allow Ravenscroft families to have exclusive access to the online registration portal. On Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 links to the online portal will be added to the public pages, this will provide access for the general public to register.

Registrations are processed on a first-come, first-served basis and many camps will fill up quickly. Therefore, we encourage early registration.

Our online registration system closes registration for most of the upcoming week's camps on the Friday prior to the camp week at noon. Please note- there a few camps that close registration earlier.

If you want to register for a camp after the online registration system closes, please email dressner@ravenscroft.org and we will see if it is possible to add additional campers at that time.

At the conclusion of the online registration process you will receive a confirmation email sent to the email address that you provided during registration. This email is automatic and is sent via the online system as soon as the registration is processed.

**It is important that you retain this email, as it contains all of the pertinent information (time, date, campus location, etc.) related to the camp(s) that you have registered your child(ren) for.**

If you feel that you did not receive a confirmation email, please check for it in all of your inbox folders (including spam), if you are unable to locate it, then contact the Summer Programs Office.

This is also important because we will send all of camp related communications to the email address provided during registration and if it is incorrect then you will not receive the subsequent conversations.

There will be additional communications throughout the spring and you will receive two emails prior to the camp week, one from the summer programs office that will provide information about campus access, a photo release, and other key details. You can also expect to receive an email from the camp instructor in the week prior to the camp.

The Ravenscroft Summer Programs team strives to create an environment in which each and every camper can experience a fun and memorable time on our campus. All camps are open to the general public.

It is our pledge to our Summer Programs families that we will promote and maintain a safe, positive environment that encourages self-confidence and personal development while taking part in all of our camp programs.

With this philosophy in mind, if your child has a physical/medical condition that may require an accommodation in order for him or her to participate in the camp, activity or program in which you are considering registering them we ask that you contact our Summer Programs Director, Daniel Ressner, prior to your registration.

This contact will allow for the opening of a dialogue to determine whether or not the specific camp program(s) will be appropriate for your child.

Campers who are registered for Camp Ravens Nest can also be registered for other half day camp programs on our campus.

If you choose to register your child for a "concurrent" camp, then they can dropped off at Ravens Nest in the morning and Ravens Nest staff will escort them to/from their other camp, they can then be picked from Camp Ravens Nest. They will also be able to eat lunch in the Dining Hall with the other Ravens Nest campers. 

In addition, if you register your child for a "concurrent" camp, then the Ravens Nest fee will be discounted 30% for that week. Please Note: We don't discount the Ravens Nest fee 60% if your child is in two "concurrent" camps.

***Our registration system is not currently processing the concurrent discounts associated with Camp Ravens Nest properly. If you register for Camp Ravens Nest and a concurrent program, please contact Dan Ressner, Director of Auxiliary Services and Summer Programs, after you have completed your online registration and then he will process the concurrent discount for you manually.**

*Ravenscroft Summer Programs also offers Discounts for all Ravenscroft Faculty & Staff and Ravenscroft Alumni, please contact Dan Ressner for more information on these discounts.

Our online registration system will accept Visa, Discover and Master Cards.

Electronic Bank checks are also acceptable and should be made payable to Ravenscroft School. Full payment for all camps is due at time of registration.

*Ravenscroft Summer Programs Offers Discounts for all Ravenscroft Faculty & Staff and Ravenscroft Alumni, please contact Dan Ressner for more information on these discounts.

All summer programs require a minimum enrollment. In the event the program must be canceled, you will be notified at least four weeks prior to the start date. The entire program fee will be fully refundable when the program is canceled by Ravenscroft.

All other program fees are refundable as follows:

1. Cancellations requests received on or before May 1, will be entitled to a full refund. Cancellations requests received between May 1 and June 8, will incur a $25.00 cancellation fee for each program that is refunded. Any refund requests that occur after the beginning of the camp program (June 9) will be subject to a $50.00 cancellation fee for each program that is refunded.

2. There will be no refund if cancellation takes place after a program begins or if a camper is suspended from a program due to failure to abide by Ravenscroft code of conduct. Verified medical/hardship situations will be dealt with on an individual basis.

3. There will be no refund if a child is suspended from a program due to parent behavior.

4. Our online registration system provider (Active Network) also provides their own form of refund insurance via pop up in our registration system. This is independent of Ravenscroft summer programs and we do not have access to those funds.  See below for more details.

ACTIVE Refund is an optional protection your consumers can add at checkout. The program allows for the end user to submit a claim for a refund through ACTIVE (portal, email or by phone) for any reason should they want to no longer attend one of Ravenscroft's summer programs. There is NO restriction in regards to the reason for the cancellation, it can be anything from they no longer wish to attend to sickness. The claim just needs to be submitted 2 days prior to the start of a program. When a consumer purchases ACTIVE Refund they are provided the necessary claim information in their confirmation email. Terms and Conditions for Participants: https://refund.active.com/termsandconditions

Campers are to be dropped off and picked up promptly at a designated camp location that was communicated in the confirmation email, a campus map is also attached to the confirmation email to help you find your camp location. We also send a email the week prior to camp that provides this information again, just in case you cannot locate your confirmation email!

We typically provide a fifteen minute window for drop off/pick up. Meaning that you can drop your camper(s) off beginning fifteen minutes prior to the camp's published start time (ie. 8:45 am for a camp that begins at 9:00 am). We also ask that all campers are picked up within fifteen minutes of the camp's conclusion (ie. 4:15 pm for a camp that ends at 4:00 pm).

Families will be contacted if their camper(s) is not picked up by the appointed time and the camper(s) will be escorted to Camp Ravens Nest where they will be supervised until a parent/guardian can come pick them up.

Families who leave their children unattended on campus or fail to pick them up in a timely manner more than once will be subject to their child being suspended from the camp program. 

Campers will have access to staff from the Jones Health Center between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Our nurses provide clinical services ranging from tending to a skinned knee to managing complex medical conditions and administering prescribed medications.

Additionally, Ravenscroft has certified athletic trainers and other staff members trained and equipped to attend to campers should the need arise outside of Jones Health Center hours. 

After registering, you will receive an email from Magnus Health, our secure online health portal, directing you to provide some general health/medical information in an electronic form called the VHR (Vital Health Record) by Magnus.

Those campers who will need medication dispensed during camp hours will also need their parents and doctor to complete a Prescription Medication Form and upload it to Magnus.

Applications for Camp Ravensnest employment opportunities will be accepted beginning on January 13, 2025.  If you are interested in working at Camp Ravensnest, please complete the appropriate application below. Contact Camp Ravensnest Director, Whitneye McCoy, if you have any questions. 

Applications received after April 7, 2025  will not be considered for employment at Camp Ravensnest.

Lead and Assistant Counselor Application

CLT Program Application 

Please note- For all other camps, staffing is determined by the individual program instructor, so if you are interested in working at any camp other than Camp Ravens Nest, please contact the instructor directly.

All summer camp programs have a waitlist.  Our online registration system will start taking waitlist registrations once the camp has hit it's registration cap.  Every camp has a maximum number of campers that can attend. This number is based on the camp's physical space, number of instructors, equipment needed, and various other factors.

Once we have a waitlist for a camp, the only ways that a space will open up are for another previously registered camper to withdraw or for the instructor to determine that they can accept additional campers and increase the registration cap.

If you are on a waitlist and a space does open up for you, you receive an email directly from the online registration system (Active Network). This email will provide you 24 hours to sign up for the camp you were waitlisted for. If you do not register in that 24 hour window, the system will send the same email to the next person on the waitlist, that process will continue until someone does take the spot and finalizes the registration by paying the camp fee.