St. Paul's School (New Hampshire)

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students. In 1992, the board appointed David Hicks (r. 1992-96) as rector and ordered him to improve the school's academic reputation, as "obody had gone to Harvard in five years, except for legacies." Hicks introduced an interdisciplinary humanities curriculum which the school still employs today. Although the faculty eventually forced him to resign, the school rebounded academically. In 2001, SPS ranked fourth among boarding schools and fifteenth in the nation in a study of which schools sent the most students to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.

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explaining that "we try to admit every son of an alumnus," but also "wish to admit every boy with high marks." A capable fundraiser, Drury raised the school's financial endowment from $ 1.1 million in 1920 to $ 3.6 million in 1930, and conducted a $ 1.6 million fundraising campaign that primarily went towards student financial aid. From 1920 to 1938, the share of SPS students on scholarship nearly tripled, from roughly 6% to 17%. Starting in 1922, Drury and his successors froze tuition at $ 1,400 for 22 consecutive years.

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conciliated the alumni, many of whom wanted to send their own sons to SPS. He announced that under his watch, SPS would not "use scholarship funds to entice the unusually able boy to our school." It was an ill-timed concession, as colleges were receiving the same flood of applications as boarding schools and took the opportunity to tighten their own standards for admission. By 1967 the proportion of SPS graduates going on to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton had nearly halved from 1953. Warren personally visited Yale president

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with evolving standards for academic excellence—which, as Ferguson had recognized, increasingly prioritized preparation for college—and student discipline had declined. Drury hired better teachers, tightened academic standards, and reestablished student discipline. Universities were attracted to the kind of well-schooled, upper-class young men that schools like St. Paul's produced in large quantities. Sociologist

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counts of statutory rape, one count of endangering the welfare of a child, and one felony count of using a computer to lure a minor. The New Hampshire court system rejected Labrie's appeals and new trial requests in 2018 and 2019. Labrie was released from prison in June 2019, having served eight months of his twelve-month sentence. He was also sentenced to five years of probation and was required to

609:. He was succeeded by Henry Kittredge (r. 1947-54), the first SPS rector who was not an Episcopal minister. Although Kittredge questioned colleges' increasing reliance on standardized tests in college admissions, he was generally able to sustain SPS' enviable college placement record. In 1953, SPS sent 78% of its students to Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, second among New England boarding schools. 29: 864:, and commits to meet 100% of demonstrated financial need for every admitted student. The school states that families with annual household incomes of $ 125,000 or below "generally qualify for full tuition support." Thirty-eight percent of SPS students are on financial aid, and the school's financial aid budget is roughly $ 10 million. 1231:

choice. Recent offerings have included astronomy and Shakespeare. In addition to the course load, students choose a daily extracurricular activity or sport to participate in four afternoons per week. The program had a 37% admission rate in 2010. In 2014, 267 students from 78 high schools participated in the Advanced Studies Program.

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St. Paul's School founded the summer Advanced Studies Program in 1957 to provide juniors from public and parochial New Hampshire high schools with challenging educational opportunities. The students live and study at the St. Paul's campus for five and a half weeks and are immersed in their subject of

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The annual Inter-House Inter-Club Race, known among students as the "Dorm Run," but now officially named the "Charles B. Morgan Run", takes place late in Fall Term, usually in early to mid-November. Students are invited to earn points for their dorm and club by running in a 2-mile (3.2 km) cross

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In the 2021-22 school year, St. Paul's reported that 62.4% of its students were white, 15.1% were Asian, 7.9% were black, 7.7% were Hispanic, 0.2% were Native American/Alaska Native, and 6.6% were multiracial. The survey did not permit the school to identify one student in multiple categories. At the

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are explained by the lack of talent, hard work, and limited cultural and social experience of the less privileged. Thus high status is earned, not based on entitlement. According to Khan, "Today what is distinct among the elite is not their exclusivity but their ease within and broad acceptance of a

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By the 1980s and 1990s, the board of trustees wanted the administration to exercise a firmer hand over the school. They confronted St. Paul's emerging image (warranted or not) as a "party school"—a poll found that 80% of the students were using drugs—and sought to restore faculty discipline over the

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to conduct a study of the school's anti-abuse policies. The school was not required to re-hire the original monitor. A replacement monitor released a report in 2021, noting that the school had hired an on-campus advocate to provide support for sexual assault survivors on a confidential basis. RAINN

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Although most financial aid at St. Paul's is administered strictly on the basis of financial need, the school offers a limited number of regional scholarships for students from Alabama, California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming, as well

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Drury also sought to democratize the student body and curtail snobbery among the richer students. Although St. Paul's was heavily oversubscribed—in 1920 it received over 1,600 applications for just over 100 openings—Drury set aside 10 slots a year for the winners of a competitive examination, dryly

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Drury shared some of Henry Coit's skepticism about higher education; he once wrote in his annual report that a quarter of every St. Paul's class should be encouraged to forego college. Nonetheless, he significantly improved St. Paul's academic reputation. As the Coits had aged, they had not kept up

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Established in 1856 to educate boys from upper-class families, St. Paul's later became one of the first boys' boarding schools to admit girls and is now home to a diverse student body from all backgrounds. It is one of the only remaining boarding-only high schools in the United States. Although the

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The "Senior Salute", an alleged tradition in which seniors would proposition younger classmates for sexual encounters before graduation, was publicly revealed in 2015, when a former student, Owen Labrie, was charged with the rape of 15-year-old freshman Chessy Prout. Labrie was convicted on three

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Rector Craig B. Anderson (r. 1997-2005) retired under pressure in May 2005 after a campaign by parents and alumni that criticized his management of school finances and investments. As alleged, Anderson had severely cut back on school expenses while simultaneously being quite liberal with his own

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to conduct an investigation. Harshbarger's team issued an initial report in May 2017. It also published follow-up reports in September 2017 and August 2018 outlining additional allegations of sexual misconduct that SPS received after the publication of the May 2017 report. The initial report was

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in its digital archive. According to the alumni magazine, this "put the school archives on par with some of the country’s major universities." Lindsay Center, the science and math building, contains a greenhouse and an observatory. The school is currently building a 16,000-square-foot admissions

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The school's rural campus is familiarly known as "Millville," after a now-abandoned mill whose relic still stands in the woods near the Lower School Pond. When St. Paul's was founded, its campus covered 50 acres. Today, the campus stretches over 2,000 acres, the overwhelming majority of which is

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Under Matthew Warren (r. 1954-70), the school underwent significant changes. Tuition was increased to $ 1,800; applications increased significantly despite rising tuition, aided by an improving economy; and the campus was substantially renovated. As competition for spots at SPS increased, Warren

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and Carroll Cline, opened in 1991. A 95,000-square-foot athletic center opened in 2004. The Lindsay Center for Mathematics and Science opened in fall 2011. The former visual arts center, the Hargate Building, was renovated in 2017 to become the new Friedman Community Center. A replacement arts

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wrote that she had been raped by multiple SPS students when she was fifteen, and accused SPS of a cover-up. The school issued a statement that it would "honor her desire that the school acknowledge its failings, accept responsibility, and work, not just promise, to do better." Crawford later

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filings for the 2021-22 school year, SPS reported total assets of $ 953.8 million, net assets of $ 854.6 million, investment holdings of $ 724.4 million, and cash holdings of $ 14.9 million. SPS also reported $ 64.7 million in program service expenses and $ 10.9 million in grants (primarily

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Khan, p. 13 ("Sitting next to a poor Hispanic boy from the Bronx— who forty years ago would never have been admitted— is a frighteningly self-possessed girl from one of the richest WASP families in the world. St. Paul's is still a place for the already elite. ... But it is

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published an article implicating a former SPS teacher in sexual misconduct during his time at a different school, SPS issued a public invitation to its alumni to report incidents of sexual misconduct during their time on campus. It also retained the law firm of former

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In 2020, the monitor resigned, claiming that the school was obstructing his investigations and that an administrator had verbally abused him. The school eventually agreed to hire a new monitor, to add funding for an assistant monitor, and to hire the

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In the Spring Term, St. Paul's holds a school-wide public speaking contest called the Hugh Camp Cup. The finalists' speeches are delivered before the entire school, and the student body votes on a winner, whose name is engraved on the prize. Alumnus

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An excellent fundraiser, Oates doubled the size of the school's endowment with an ambitious $ 30 million fundraising campaign, which left SPS the wealthiest boarding school in the United States (per capita) by a comfortable margin.

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In 2024, St. Paul's welcomed 141 new students and reported an admissions rate of 13%. The new students came from 24 states and 22 countries. Based on 2023 data, 71.7% of accepted students chose to enroll at SPS.

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The Coits' immediate successor, Henry Ferguson (r. 1906-11), left after just five years. In 1910, Samuel Drury (r. 1911-38) assumed control of the school. He presided over what the school historian called its

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There are 19 dorms, nine boys', nine girls', and one all-gender. Each houses between 20 and 40 students, and every dorm has members of all four forms. The architecture of the dormitories varies from the

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In the 2023-24 school year, St. Paul's reported that 48% of its students identified as people of color and 22% were international students. The student body represented 37 states and 28 countries.

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is embedded in the rituals and traditions of the school from the first day. According to Khan, the student advances up the ladder of the hierarchy embedded in the culture of the school.

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A core issue raised by the trial involves the nature of a St. Paul's ritual called a "senior salute" — in which seniors proposition younger students for some kind of intimate encounter.

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By some accounts, the first hockey game in the United States was played on the St. Paul's Lower School Pond on November 17, 1883, after SPS teacher James Potter Conover visited

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to ask him to reverse course. Brewster replied that Yale would accept students from the top 40% of the SPS class, but was no longer interested in bottom-half SPS students.

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The school gradually opened its doors to a broader cross-section of America. The school scrapped its Episcopalians-only rule, although not without some hiccups. In 1939,

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The succeeding rectors ushered in a relative period of calm, and the trustees and rectors have continued to modernize the campus. The new Ohrstrom Library, designed by

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courts in the United States were built at St. Paul's in 1884. In addition to bringing hockey to the United States, Conover introduced an early variant of squash (

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magazine reported that St. Paul's had an endowment per student of $ 92,555 ($ 440,524 in February 2024 dollars), nearly two-thirds more than second-placed

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The centerpiece of the campus is the Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul (informally the "New Chapel"), constructed between 1886 and 1888. It was designed by

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Under Gordon and his successors, the school was a prominent force in early 20th-century American hockey, playing and beating collegiate teams, including

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For the first fifty years of St. Paul's history, it was run by two brothers, Henry Augustus Coit (r. 1856-95) and Joseph Howland Coit (r. 1895-1906). An

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The school started with just three students, but grew quickly. By the mid-1860s, it was already filled to capacity, leading an SPS parent to establish

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issued a report and recommendations in September 2022, noting that "St. Paul's leadership has made a number of process improvements in recent years."

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George Shattuck supported outdoors education, and St. Paul's was "perhaps the first school in which the deed of gift accented physical development."

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In 2018, SPS confidentially settled a civil suit filed by Prout's parents. Later that year, Prout published her memoir of the incident, titled

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Overlooking the Lower School Pond, the Ohrstrom Library was remodeled in 2016 and is now home to 75,000 print books and almost half a million

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All together, the three reports substantiated allegations of misconduct against twenty former SPS employees (including future politician

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from the school after just one month because she believed its culture was still anti-Catholic; in the late 1950s the school allowed

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In the 2023-24 school year, St. Paul's charged students $ 65,410 plus fees, of which financial aid covered, on average, $ 57,000.

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end of the 2021-22 school year, SPS announced that 47% of its 158 incoming students were non-Caucasian and 19% came from abroad.

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The modern-day St. Paul's serves a diverse body of students from all backgrounds while still educating students drawn from the

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Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School

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limited to the period between 1948 and 1988, and the follow-up reports addressed allegations of misconduct through 2009.

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The St. Paul's boys' and girls' crews have each won multiple titles in international competition. The boys' crew won the

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compensation and perks. The state attorney general investigated the issue, resulting in a settlement agreement and an

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St. Paul's is a member of both the Six Schools League (a small group of schools spread across New England) and the

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age." Drury stayed at St. Paul's for twenty-seven years. Along the way, he declined the rectorship of Manhattan's

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comprise the Eight Schools Athletic Council, which organizes sports events and tournaments among ESA schools.

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In 2019, Kathleen Giles became the fourteenth rector of St. Paul's. She had previously served as the head of

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Religion, Art, and Money: Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression

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disclosed that the school had issued her a written apology and that she was pleased with its response.

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St. Paul's has historically been one of the wealthiest boarding schools in the United States. In 1978,

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St. Paul's rode out the storm under Warren's successor William Oates (r. 1970-82). According to

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calculated that in 1940 (shortly after Drury's death), 77 students applied to Harvard from the "

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is acquired through talent, hard work, and a wide variety of cultural and social experiences.

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James P. Conover (Form of 1876) taught at SPS from 1882 to 1915. He is credited with bringing

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The lavish decorations of the Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul (1888) reflected the school's

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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton

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I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

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I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

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Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.

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one of many students trying to beat out his peers by seeing how often he could "score".

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to function as privileged holders of power and status in an open society. Privilege in

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In 1885, America's first written hockey rules were drafted at St. Paul's by schoolboy

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country race. The current student record is 9:48, set in 2006 by Peter Harrison '07.

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Sheldon Library was built in 1901. It currently hosts the school's admissions office.

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SPS almost immediately attracted an upper-class clientele. Shattuck had attended

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named St. Paul's the most beautiful private high school campus in New Hampshire.

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played in the Upper Dining Hall on May 19, 1990. American electro house artist

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performed in the school's Athletic & Fitness Center on April 9, 2015.

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in 1980, 1994, and 2004. The girls' crew team won the Peabody Cup at the

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from 2003 to 2019. Before that, she was the dean of academic affairs at

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In July 2017, the New Hampshire Attorney General, with assistance from

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In 1856, Boston physician George Cheyenne Shattuck, the future dean of

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Students throw a disc around on the Chapel lawn on a warm spring day.

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The Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul (also known as the New Chapel)

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undeveloped wildland and woodland. The campus itself includes four

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Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School:

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