Forty-five minutes a night, for juniors and seniors, is the amount of time teachers are limited to assigning per subject for homework, according to the Upper School (US) academic policies laid out...

    “A lot of the time, just knowing me, I don’t usually take risks because I know what I like,” Valor McGrath ’28 said.     Yet on Saturday, April 25, she stepped out of her comfort zone...

    “It was the final 10 seconds against Belmont. Andreas Bai ’27 buzzed in after hearing only half the question and just said, ‘French.’ We won by five points,” You-Yan Wang ’26, a three-year...

One-hundred and sixty-five of the most skilled debaters and public speakers from 17 different countries gathered at The World’s Individual Debating & Public Speaking Championship in Bristol, England....

Last October, the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) introduced a proposal to reclassify the Charles River as a “Class-B (CSO)” water body. This change would have allowed Combined Sewer...

By 6 a.m. on a Monday morning, the first-come-first-served parking area outside the Upper School (US) — dubbed “The Strip” — is completely filled. Inside cars, students sleep, study and wait for...

After a day of touring New York City, students from the Upper School’s Black Student Union (BSU) headed to Amy Ruth’s for a Southern-style meal. To BSU Co-President Princess Adeoye ’27, that moment...

Working at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Annie Zhu, Sylvie Welu and Amanda Berlin (all ’26) spent Feb. 4-7 injecting zebrafish embryos. The marine biology program provided 10 students...

For decades, a driver’s license has symbolized freedom for teenagers — the ability to go anywhere, anytime, without relying on parents. At the Upper School (US), students are still seeking that autonomy,...

After nearly 17 years at the school, Director of Global Education and Round Square representative Karina Baum left in November 2025. She is stepping into a new role as the director of global learning in...

 A group of Upper School (US) students carefully placed the final gumball on their gingerbread house in the hopes of winning the competition. Nine members of the South Asian Student Alliance (SASA) recently...