St. Paul's School
College-preparatory high school in New Hampshire
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| 2025 | Scheduled opening of a new 16,000-square-foot admissions center. |
| 2024 | St. Paul's School welcomed 141 new students from 24 states and 22 countries, with an admissions rate of 13%. |
| 2023 | St. Paul's Annual Report disclosed a financial endowment of $759.3 million, equating to approximately $1.4 million per student. |
| 2023 | 71.7% of accepted students chose to enroll at St. Paul's School. |
| September 2022 | RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) issued a report with recommendations, acknowledging that St. Paul's leadership had made process improvements in recent years. |
| 2021 | At the end of the school year, St. Paul's School announced that 47% of its 158 incoming students were non-Caucasian and 19% came from abroad. |
| 2021 | A replacement monitor was appointed and released a report noting the school had hired an on-campus advocate to support sexual assault survivors confidentially. |
| 2021 | In the school year's IRS filing, St. Paul's reported total assets of $953.8 million and net assets of $854.6 million. |
| 2020 | The original external compliance monitor resigned, claiming the school was obstructing investigations and alleging verbal abuse by an administrator. |
| July 2020 | Alumna Lacy Crawford publicly revealed she was raped by multiple St. Paul's School students when she was fifteen, accusing the school of a cover-up. The school responded with a statement acknowledging its failings and committing to do better. |
| 2019 | The school removed the names of two rectors from campus buildings after determining they had mishandled abuse claims during their tenures. |
| 2019 | The St. Paul's girls' crew team won the Peabody Cup at the Henley Women's Regatta. |
| 2019 | Kathleen Giles became the fourteenth rector of St. Paul's School, having previously served as head of Middlesex School from 2003 to 2019. |
| June 2019 | Owen Labrie was released from prison after serving eight months of a twelve-month sentence, and was placed on five years of probation and required to register as a sex offender. |
| January 2019 | St. Paul's reclaimed its position as the wealthiest boarding school in New England, with an endowment per student of $1.19 million. |
| 2018 | Chessy Prout published her memoir 'I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope'. |
| 2018 | The New Hampshire court system rejected Owen Labrie's appeals and new trial requests. |
| 2018 | The state Attorney General reached a settlement agreement with the school, allowing it to avoid criminal prosecution and requiring the school to hire an external compliance monitor. |
| 2018 | Architectural Digest names St. Paul's School campus as the most beautiful private high school campus in New Hampshire. |
| 2018 | St. Paul's School confidentially settled a civil suit filed by Prout's parents regarding the rape incident. |
| August 2018 | Final follow-up report published, addressing sexual misconduct allegations through 2009, substantiating allegations against twenty former SPS employees, including future politician Gerry Studds. |
| 2017 | The Hargate Building was renovated to become the new Friedman Community Center, and a replacement arts building was opened. |
| 2017 | St. Paul's withdrew from the Independent School League due to league bylaws surrounding merit scholarships. |
| September 2017 | Follow-up report published with additional sexual misconduct allegations received after the May 2017 report. |
| July 2017 | New Hampshire Attorney General, Concord police, and New Hampshire State Police initiated a criminal investigation into St. Paul's School to examine potential endangerment of students by school administrators. |
| May 2017 | Harshbarger's team issued an initial investigation report covering sexual misconduct allegations from 1948 to 1988. |
| 2016 | After the Boston Globe published an article about sexual misconduct by a former SPS teacher, St. Paul's School issued a public invitation to alumni to report incidents of sexual misconduct and retained the law firm of former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to conduct an investigation. |
| 2016 | Remodeling of the Ohrstrom Library, expanding its digital archive to include almost half a million e-books. |
| 2015 | Owen Labrie was charged with the rape of a 15-year-old freshman, Chessy Prout, exposing the alleged 'Senior Salute' tradition at St. Paul's School. |
| April 9 2015 | Electro house artist Steve Aoki performed in the school's Athletic & Fitness Center. |
| 2014 | 267 students from 78 different high schools participated in the Advanced Studies Program, demonstrating the program's broad reach and continued success. |
| 2011 | The Lindsay Center for Mathematics and Science was opened in the fall. |
| 2010 | The Advanced Studies Program had an admission rate of 37%, indicating a competitive selection process for participating students. |
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