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88-567: Kent School is a private college-preparatory day and boarding school in Kent, Connecticut . Founded in 1906, it is affiliated with the Episcopal Church . It educates around 520 boys and girls in grades 9–12. Kent was one of the first schools to provide tuition discounts based on what a family could afford to pay. The school's list of notable alumni includes philosopher John Rawls , Secretary of State Cyrus Vance , and three winners of

176-614: A financial endowment of $ 759.3 million as of June 2024, St. Paul's is one of the wealthiest boarding schools in New England on a per capita basis. Students with annual household incomes of $ 125,000 or below "generally qualify for full tuition support." Thirty-eight percent of students are on financial aid. In 1856, Boston physician George Cheyne Shattuck, the future dean of Harvard Medical School , converted his summer home in Millville, New Hampshire (a satellite town of Concord) into

264-407: A sociologist who is a St. Paul's alumnus, students are socialized to function as privileged holders of power and status in an open society. Privilege in meritocracy is acquired through talent, hard work, and a wide variety of cultural and social experiences. Economic inequality and social inequality are explained by the lack of talent, hard work, and limited cultural and social experience of

352-440: A boarding school for boys. Inspired by the educational theories of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , who believed that classroom learning should be balanced with the "direct experience of the senses," Shattuck wanted his two sons educated in the austere, bucolic countryside. He hoped that eventually, the school would "educate the sons of [other] wealthy inhabitants of large cities." For the first fifty years of St. Paul's history, it

440-512: 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 compensation and perks. The state attorney general investigated the issue, resulting in a settlement agreement and an Internal Revenue Service audit. The "Senior Salute", an alleged tradition in which seniors would proposition younger classmates for sexual encounters before graduation,

528-430: A coordinate girls' school in 1960, over a decade before the other St. Grottlesex schools adopted co-education. However, until 1992, girls occupied a separate campus nearly five miles away. When Kent began admitting girls, it dropped the sliding-scale tuition model and shifted to a more conventional financial aid system. Richardson W. Schell '69 became headmaster in 1981 and led the school until 2020. When he arrived, Kent

616-494: A faculty member toward a 15-year-old student in 1987 and 1988. The report came on the heels of The Boston Globe ' s "Spotlight" team revealing decades of alleged sexual abuse at numerous New England prep schools and alleged retaliation for student complaints. The reporters noted faculty alleged as abusers being relocated to different schools, including Kent. College-preparatory school A college-preparatory school (usually shortened to preparatory school or prep school )

704-490: A forerunner of today's financial aid system, under which poor parents paid only what they could afford, and rich parents were asked to cover the difference. In 1927, the average tuition fee was $ 800, with parents contributing anything from $ 0 to $ 1,500. By contrast, that year, the St. Grottlesex schools all charged between $ 1,200 and $ 1,400. Under Sill, all students, rich or poor, were required to help pay their own way by working on

792-583: A large endowment, which stood at $ 87 million in 2017. He also attracted wealthy international students; at Kent, international students typically pay full tuition, although some scholarships may be awarded. Under Schell, the percentage of international students at Kent increased roughly fourfold, doubling to 15.5% by 1996 and doubling again to 30% by 2015. As of the 2023–24 school year, Kent does not disclose its percentage of international students, but it states that its students come from 30 U.S. states and 34 countries. Although Kent's increased revenues generally allowed

880-654: A letter to Sill offering his "good wishes for a successful trip" and commenting on how "the presence of a crew of American school boys will be helpful in strengthening the ties between good sportsmen of the two countries." That year, Kent won the Thames Challenge Cup. The Times in Britain wrote, "Kent School were almost certainly the best crew that ever rowed in the Thames Cup." Kent competed at Henley 32 times and won 5 times, most recently in 1972. The school

968-470: A local school district and draw from the entire district instead of the closest school zone . Some offer specialized courses or curricula that prepare students for a specific field of study. In contrast, others use the label as a promotional tool without offering programs different from a conventional high school. Preparatory schools began before the Civil War , when there were no public schools above

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1056-604: A strong reputation. Due to Sill's desire to limit the student body to 300 students, the school's waitlist became "unmanageably long." To meet increasing demand, Sill established South Kent School in 1923. He retired in 1941 after a paralytic stroke, and died in 1952. Following Kent's 1943 disassociation from the Order of the Holy Cross, the school retained its broader affiliation with the Episcopal Church. However, in

1144-816: A student's cumulative GPA. Students in the Class of 2023 had an average SAT score of 1313 and an average ACT score of 28.1. In the 2023–24 school year, Kent charged boarding students $ 73,450 and day students $ 54,600, plus other optional and mandatory fees. 35% of students received financial aid, which covered, on average, $ 54,000. In its Internal Revenue Service filings for the 2022–23 school year, Kent reported total assets of $ 214.9 million, net assets of $ 167.4 million, investment holdings of $ 132.2 million, and cash holdings of $ 17.8 million. Kent also reported $ 38.5 million in program service expenses and $ 6.8 million in grants (primarily student financial aid ). Kent offers 22 interscholastic sports with 50 interscholastic teams from

1232-404: A total enrollment of 504 students. Of these 504 students, Kent reported that 289 were white (57.3%), 134 were Asian (26.6%), 24 were black (4.8%), 24 were Hispanic (4.8%), and 33 were multiracial (6.5%); the survey did not allow Kent to classify students in two or more categories, or to distinguish between domestic and international students. Kent follows a trimester system in which a school year

1320-404: A week, courses were shortened to be terms (rather than years) long, mandatory (non-Sunday) chapel attendance was reduced to four times a week, and the school's grading system was changed to ease student competition. Oates also expanded the arts program. An excellent fundraiser, Oates doubled the size of the school's endowment with an ambitious $ 30 million fundraising campaign, which left SPS

1408-500: A year in 2014). Some prep schools are affiliated with a particular religious denomination. Unlike parochial (Catholic) schools , independent preparatory schools are not governed by a religious organization, and students are usually not required to receive instruction in one particular religion. While independent prep schools in the United States are not subject to government oversight or regulation, many are accredited by one of

1496-492: Is a type of secondary school . The term refers to public , private independent or parochial schools primarily designed to prepare students for higher education . In Japan, college-prep schools are called Shingakukō ( 進学校 ) , which means a school used to progress into another school. Prep schools in Japan are usually considered prestigious and are often difficult to get into. However, there are many tiers of prep schools,

1584-551: Is currently building a 16,000-square-foot admissions center, scheduled to open in early 2025. 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 Collegiate Gothic style of the "Quad" dorms (built in 1927) to the spare, modern style of the Kittredge building (built in

1672-435: Is fall, winter, and spring terms. Classes are held from Monday to Saturday, with Wednesdays and Saturdays being half-days to accommodate athletic contests and other after-school activities. The school has announced that it intends to phase out Advanced Placement classes and to replace them with Kent-designed "Advanced Studies" classes. Kent grades students on an unweighted 4.0 GPA scale, but does not rank students or calculate

1760-573: Is now used for ceremonial events. 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 e-books in its digital archive. According to the alumni magazine, this "put[s] 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

1848-452: Is sometimes based on specific selection criteria , usually academic, but some schools have open enrollment. In 2017, 5.7 million students were enrolled in US private elementary or secondary schools, constituting 10% of total school enrollment. Of those, 1.4 million students were enrolled in a secular (nonsectarian) school. Public and charter college preparatory schools are typically connected to

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1936-742: The Boston Globe 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 Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger 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

2024-652: The COVID-19 pandemic , dropping from 580 students in 2020 to 504 in 2021. Since 2022, enrollment has held steady at 520 students. The school's strategic plan states that its near-term priorities are to "move toward 50% of students on financial aid," to maintain the boarding student population at 470, and to improve the school dormitories and faculty housing. In the 2021–22 school year, Kent enrolled 80 freshmen (in school jargon, "Third Formers"), 125 sophomores ("Fourth Formers"), 149 juniors ("Fifth Formers"), and 150 seniors and post-graduate students ("Sixth Formers" and "PGs"), for

2112-1004: The Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta in 1980, 1994, and 2004. The girls' crew team won the Peabody Cup at the Henley Women's Regatta in 1996, 1998, 2001, and 2019. St. Paul's is a member of the Lakes Region League , an athletic conference of prep schools in New Hampshire and Vermont. It was previously a member of the Boston-centered Independent School League , but withdrew in 2017 due to league bylaws surrounding merit scholarships. In addition,

2200-546: The Pulitzer Prize . Kent School was founded by Anglo-Catholic Episcopal priest Frederick Herbert Sill in 1906. It arrived at the tail end of the wave of British-style boarding schools set up at the turn of the twentieth century. Sill admired England and wanted to spread English influence within the United States. The school was originally associated with the Anglican Benedictine Order of

2288-492: The grammar school or elementary level anywhere in the US. Their graduates were not ready for college study, so many colleges set up "preparatory academies" to prepare them for college study. The preparatory division could dwarf the college enrollment, as at New York Central College . There were also preparatory schools unaffiliated with colleges, especially for girls, such as the Columbia Female Academy. At

2376-402: The 13–18 age range. Little financial aid other than loans is available. Prep schools can be day schools , boarding schools , or both, and may be co-educational or single-sex . Currently, day schools are more common than boarding, and since the 1970s, co-educational schools have been more common than single-sex. Unlike the public schools which are free, they charge tuition ($ 10,000 to 40,000+

2464-575: The 1890s, Coit also attempted to ban baseball in favor of cricket; the SPS cricket team toured New England and Canada. SPS almost immediately attracted an upper-class clientele. Shattuck had attended Round Hill School , a short-lived experimental school that was "the most famous American school of its time." Founded in 1823, Round Hill was one of Harvard College 's top feeder schools, and "offered an excellent but very expensive education" with "an elegant lifestyle," including "servants, stables, and tours of

2552-466: The 1950s, it began allowing Catholic students to attend Sunday Mass in town. Today, attendance at Kent's Episcopal Sunday chapel service is voluntary. In 1954, Kent admitted its first African-American and Asian students. In addition, the school offered a scholarship to a black South African student in 1955. However, the apartheid -era South African government refused to grant the student a passport, causing an international incident. The school established

2640-877: 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 student financial aid ). St. Paul's has historically been one of the wealthiest boarding schools in the United States. In 1978, Time 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 Groton . A 2009 study found that Exeter ($ 987,000) had passed St. Paul's ($ 827,000), and Andover ($ 722,000) and Hotchkiss ($ 716,000) were not far behind. However, in January 2019 St. Paul's

2728-493: 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 end of the 2021-22 school year, SPS announced that 47% of its 158 incoming students were non-Caucasian and 19% came from abroad. George Shattuck supported outdoors education, and St. Paul's

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2816-586: The 21st century, some trial cases connecting public junior and senior high schools are seen in each region, too, broadening the education for college entrance. As the Japanese government provides grant-in-aid to private schools, the tuition is 5,000–10,000 US dollars per year, even if it is a private school. In the United States , there are public , private , and charter college-preparatory schools that can be either parochial or secular . Admission

2904-571: The Hargate Building, was renovated in 2017 to become the new Friedman Community Center. A replacement arts building was opened in 2017. However, the school has endured a series of controversies in the 21st century, primarily concerning sexual misconduct. The modern-day St. Paul's serves a diverse body of students from all backgrounds while still educating students drawn from the highest levels of American society and international elites. According to sociologist Shamus Khan (an alumnus),

2992-531: The Holy Cross , but gained its independence from the Order in 1943. Although Kent has occasionally been categorized within Saint Grottlesex , a group of boarding schools with traditionally upper-class student bodies, the school advertises itself as "an elite school, not a school for elites." Under Sill, Kent's culture was egalitarian for its day. When Kent was founded, the Gilded Age had ended, and

3080-616: The Housatonic Valley League. In the past 17 years, the team has earned seven league championships and two New England Championships. In 2021–22, the Kent Boys' squash team won its first boys national title after a 4–3 final against three-time defending champions Brunswick. Following the 1999 premiere of Seth MacFarlane '91's animated TV sitcom Family Guy , Kent headmaster Richardson Schell urged Fox Broadcasting Company 's advertisers to cancel their advertising with

3168-456: The New York elite that Sill expected to fund his school were either unwilling or unable to bankroll another prep school. Sill realized that many of his students would have to come "from families of moderate means who could not afford the tuition fees at the then established boarding schools of the [Episcopal] Church." To accommodate those families, he introduced a "sliding-scale tuition model,"

3256-602: 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 John Kerry achieved this distinction during his sixth form year. St. Paul's students once had a close relationship with jam bands like the Grateful Dead . Some of

3344-514: The St. Paul's campus for five and a half weeks and are immersed in their subject of 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. In 2016, after

3432-702: The athletic directors of St. Paul's and the other members of the Eight Schools Association comprise the Eight Schools Athletic Council, which organizes sports events and tournaments among ESA schools. St. Paul's conducts its Humanities classes using the Harkness method , which encourages discussion between students and the teacher, and between students. According to Shamus Khan , author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School (2010) and

3520-441: The board appointed David Hicks (r. 1992-96) as rector and ordered him to improve the school's academic reputation, as "[n]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 fifth among boarding schools and fifteenth in

3608-567: The campus stretches over 2,000 acres, the overwhelming majority of which is undeveloped wildland and woodland. The campus itself includes four ponds and the upper third of the Turkey River . In 2018, Architectural Digest named St. Paul's the most beautiful private high school campus in New Hampshire. The centerpiece of the campus is the Chapel of St. Peter and St. Paul (informally the "New Chapel"), constructed between 1886 and 1888. It

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3696-480: The culture of the school. 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 country race. The current student record is 9:48, set in 2006 by Peter Harrison '07. In

3784-400: The day, that schools should not be repressive and that adolescents should be free to experiment and try out different identities." He conciliated the students by offering them the opportunity to participate in disciplinary decisions. He also accepted several of the demands that the students had made in 1968. In the following years, seated meals were reduced from three times a day to four times

3872-474: The early 1970s). In the 2023-24 school year, St. Paul's charged students $ 65,410 plus fees, of which financial aid covered, on average, $ 57,000. St. Paul's offers need-based financial aid , 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

3960-442: The entry into which depends on the university that the school leads into. Japanese prep schools started as chūgakkō ( 中学校 ) , secondary schools for boys, which were founded after the secondary school law in 1886. Later, kōtō jogakkō ( 高等女学校 ) , secondary school for girls (1891), and jitsugyō gakkō ( 実業学校 ) , vocational schools (1924), were included among chūtōgakkō and were legally regarded as schools on

4048-408: The estates of prominent Bostonians." Although it shut down in 1834, it left a strong impression on Shattuck, who believed that in the isolation of a boarding school, attentive teachers could better foster "physical and moral culture" in their students. Roughly 70 percent of Round Hill families eventually sent children to St. Paul's. The school started with just three students, but grew quickly. By

4136-527: The first five times, it competed for it. In 2006, Kent Boys Crew won the New England championship and became the first American crew to challenge for the recently established Prince Albert Challenge Cup at Henley. In 2010, Kent Boys Crew won the New England points trophy and placed 1st at Youth Nationals. The team traveled to Henley and were the runners-up for the Princess Elizabeth Cup, losing to Eton College . Football at Kent competes in

4224-420: The kind of well-schooled, upper-class young men that schools like St. Paul's produced in large quantities. In 1934, 95% of St. Paul's graduates matriculated at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. In addition, in 1940 (shortly after Drury's death), 77 students applied to Harvard from the " St. Grottlesex " schools (of which St. Paul's was the largest member), and only one was rejected. Drury also sought to democratize

4312-409: The late 1950s the school allowed John Kerry '62 to attend Mass off campus as long as he also attended the school's Episcopal Sunday chapel services later that day; and by the end of the 1960s, Catholics were no longer required to attend Protestant services on campus. SPS' first black faculty member ( John T. Walker ) and student arrived in 1957 and 1959, respectively. Warren's last major achievement

4400-401: 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 more open world." Hierarchy 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

4488-496: The mid-1860s, it was already filled to capacity, leading an SPS parent to establish St. Mark's School . Enrollment reached 204 students by 1878 and 345 students by 1895. Although the school (founded by Bostonians) was initially not associated with the New York upper class, SPS gradually extended its reach to New York and the Philadelphia Main Line . By 1894, there were only six students from Boston. In 1923,

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4576-477: The nation in a study of which schools sent the most students to Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. 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 Robert A. M. Stern 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,

4664-528: The new system (6-3-3) took effect in 1947. Many shingakkō are six-year schools . Many have their origins in kyūsei chūgakkō and kōtō jogakkō , or ones attached to universities. Japanese pupils who aspire to a prep school education take written examinations in sixth grade in each prep school. Unlike six-year prep schools, the top municipal senior high school (three-year schools) in each school zone and some high-ranked private senior high schools (ditto) are also regarded as shingakukō ( 進学校 ) . In

4752-606: The publication of the May 2017 report. The initial report was limited to the period between 1948 and 1988, and the follow-up reports addressed allegations of misconduct through 2009. All together, the three reports substantiated allegations of misconduct against twenty former SPS employees (including future politician Gerry Studds ), which included assaults , harassment , and rape . The investigators concluded that allegations against fifteen other SPS employees were unsubstantiated, and lacked sufficient information to reach an conclusion with respect to thirteen other SPS employees. Per

4840-416: The same level as a school for boys. However, graduates from those two types of schools had more requirements for college entrance. In the modern period, many Japanese secondary schools were five-year schools, except for during a short term from 1943 to 1946. The social status of chūgakkō , or kyūsei chūgakkō ( 旧制中学校 ) , secondary schools for boys under the old system, did not disappear even after

4928-435: The school educated 199 students from New York and 26 from Massachusetts. 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 " Augustan age." Drury stayed at St. Paul's for twenty-seven years. Along the way, he declined the rectorship of Manhattan's Trinity Church —at

5016-435: The school farm or doing school chores. Sill also discouraged rich students from flaunting their wealth, explaining that "we [do not] object to fur coats as such, but to see school boys sporting fur coats ... strikes us as rather ostentatious." Kent was also said to have been "more accommodating to those students who were drawn to creative pursuits than some of Kent's counterparts." Despite its humble beginnings, Kent established

5104-439: The school for 22 years, resigned in protest. In 2022 (two years after Schell's retirement) Kent awarded MacFarlane its alumni achievement award. To commemorate the occasion, the school commissioned a Kent student to create a video in which MacFarlane's friends and family recounted episodes from his childhood. In 2017, The New York Times reported on a lawsuit alleging that Kent School failed to report alleged sexual misconduct by

5192-579: The school through World War II before leaving to become the Bishop of Massachusetts . 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. Under Matthew Warren (r. 1954-70),

5280-454: The school to offer more robust financial aid to domestic students, the percentage of students on financial aid has fluctuated in recent years, shifting from 22% in 1999 to 43% in 2013, 29% in 2019, and 35% in 2023. In 2020, Michael Hirschfeld was appointed Head of School. He was previously Kent's assistant director of admissions in the 1990s, and most recently served as rector of St. Paul's School in New Hampshire. The student body shrunk during

5368-419: 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 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

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5456-603: The school's financial aid budget is roughly $ 10 million. 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 as Mexico. As of June 30, 2024, St. Paul's disclosed in its 2023-24 Annual Report that its financial endowment stands at $ 759.3 million, equivalent to approximately $ 1.4 million per student. In its Internal Revenue Service filings for

5544-421: 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. Norman Nash (r. 1939-47) guided

5632-402: The school's unparalleled financial resources allow it to cultivate "an intentional diversity that few communities share or can afford." Financial aid students admitted to SPS receive, on average, an 87% discount on frontline tuition. In 2019, Kathleen Giles became the fourteenth rector of St. Paul's. She had previously served as the head of Middlesex School from 2003 to 2019. Before that, she

5720-426: The show. He called its brand of humor "obnoxious" and said that some of its jokes were racist. He also questioned whether the name of the show's dysfunctional Griffin family was a personal insult to his secretary, who was also named Griffin. Reportedly, Schell helped persuade companies like Coca-Cola , Philip Morris , KFC , and Sprint to withdraw their advertising from the show. MacFarlane's mother, who had worked at

5808-412: The six regional accreditation agencies for educational institutions. St. Paul%27s School (New Hampshire) 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. With

5896-678: The slang peculiar to St. Paul's originated as the "Pyramid Dialect" among St. Paul's students and alumni who followed the Grateful Dead 's 1978 shows in Egypt. Phish played in the Upper Dining Hall on May 19, 1990. American electro house artist Steve Aoki performed in the school's Athletic & Fitness Center on April 9, 2015. 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

5984-417: 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 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

6072-538: The terms of a settlement with the New Hampshire Attorney General (see below), SPS has retained an independent monitor to review any further reports of sexual misconduct by SPS employees. In 2019, the school removed the names of two rectors from campus buildings, explaining that they had mishandled abuse claims during their respective tenures. In July 2020, alumna Lacy Crawford wrote that she had been raped by multiple SPS students when she

6160-599: The thirds, Junior Varsity, and Varsity levels. More than three-quarters of the student body participates in interscholastic sport. Kent is a member of the Founders League, a competitive athletic league composed of NEPSAC schools. Its mascot is the Lion, although it once was the Fighting Episcopalian. Despite Hotchkiss School 's location in the same county, Kent's rival is The Loomis Chaffee School and

6248-497: The time the nation's wealthiest congregation—and the bishopric of Pennsylvania . Drury turned SPS into one of America's most reliable feeder schools to Ivy League universities. Like other leading New England prep schools of the period, SPS was not founded as a college-preparatory school : of the first 70 graduates, only five went directly to college. However, times were changing. Ferguson had recognized that parents were increasingly interested in sending their sons to college, but

6336-529: The time, men and women did not study together at any level, and there were no women's colleges . Some of the female preparatory schools became women's colleges after the Civil War. Free high school level education for all became available in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. Since then, the surviving "prep schools" in the US are primarily private, elite institutions that have very selective admission criteria and high tuition fees , catering to students in

6424-402: The top 40% of the SPS class, but was no longer interested in bottom-half SPS students. 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, Rose Kennedy withdrew Robert F. Kennedy from the school after just one month because she believed its culture was still anti-Catholic; in

6512-495: The two schools have a day dedicated to competing against each other, historically called Loomis Day. Fall Winter Spring The Kent School Boat Club was begun at Kent in 1922 with the encouragement of Father Sill. Sill was the coxswain of the Columbia crew which won the first ever Poughkeepsie Regatta. Kent competed for the Thames Challenge Cup in 1933 with the support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who sent

6600-475: 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 Kingman Brewster to ask him to reverse course. Brewster replied that Yale would accept students from

6688-415: The wealthiest boarding school in the United States (per capita) by a comfortable margin. 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 students. In 1992,

6776-623: Was "perhaps the first school in which the deed of gift accented physical development." St. Paul's has a long tradition of ice hockey . The school, and the city of Concord more broadly, were early cradles for ice hockey in America. The first squash 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 ( squash tennis ) to SPS. The St. Paul's boys' and girls' crews have each won multiple titles in international competition. The boys' crew won

6864-558: Was coeducation: in May 1970, shortly before he stepped down, the board of trustees agreed to begin admitting girls in 1971. Nonetheless, the tail end of Warren's tenure marked the start of a turbulent period for St. Paul's. In 1968, students wrote an acerbic manifesto describing the school administration as an oppressive regime, and issued demands for change. St. Paul's rode out the storm under Warren's successor William Oates (r. 1970-82). According to Alex Shoumatoff '64, Oates applied "the prevailing educational and developmental thinking of

6952-497: Was designed by Henry Vaughan , and was one of the first American chapels to employ Perpendicular Gothic . Although Vaughan was the architect of Washington National Cathedral , an architecture critic at Princeton University called the New Chapel Vaughan's masterpiece, as Vaughan died before the cathedral was completed. SPS preserved the smaller Old Chapel, which dates back to 1858 and was the school's first building; it

7040-629: Was featured twice in Life magazine, once in May 1937 and again in June 1948. Stuart Auchincloss '48 was featured on the cover of the latter publication. Kent Boys Crew also won the New England Championship Regatta 25 times since 1947. The girls team began in 1973. They won Henley in 2002 and two National Championships in 1986 and 1987. They have also won the New England Championship Regatta seven different times, including four of

7128-418: 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 disclosed that the school had issued her a written apology and that she was pleased with its response. Rector Craig B. Anderson (r. 1997-2005) retired under pressure in May 2005 after

7216-471: Was in a period of transition. Under Sill, the school had been reliant on tuition (and Sill's policy of simple living) to make ends meet. With the cost of education spiraling upwards, Kent ran budget deficits for much of the 1970s. In addition, Kent spent much of its financial endowment building the new girls' campus. When Schell took over, Kent's endowment stood at $ 3 million ($ 10.4 million in May 2024 dollars). Schell improved Kent's financial position by raising

7304-416: Was not able to implement his ideas. Although 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 —he significantly improved St. Paul's academic reputation. He hired better teachers, tightened academic standards, and reestablished student discipline. Universities were attracted to

7392-533: Was once again the wealthiest boarding school in New England, with an endowment per student of $ 1.19 million. 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. 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. In

7480-411: 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 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

7568-509: 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 register as a sex offender . In 2018, SPS confidentially settled a civil suit filed by Prout's parents. Later that year, Prout published her memoir of the incident, titled I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope . In July 2017,

7656-409: Was run by two brothers, Henry Augustus Coit (r. 1856-95) and Joseph Howland Coit (r. 1895-1906). An Anglophile , Henry Coit endeavored to make St. Paul's an American equivalent of an English public school , importing Anglicisms such as " forms ," " removes ," " evensong ," and " matins ." The school's religious services were Anglo-Catholic , and enrollment was initially limited to Episcopalians. In

7744-443: Was the dean of academic affairs at Groton School . Under her administration, St. Paul's bills itself as "one of the nation's only 100% boarding high schools"; nearly all of its competitors enroll some day students. 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,

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