Spanish Teacher Elena Bonmati and Research Librarian Sarah Yarborough present their collaboration and resulting student work at conference in Spain.
October 5, 2026
For Iris LaMoreaux ’27, a St. Paul’s School education means pursuing STEM and the humanities, varsity athletics, student journalism, service, and more — and discovering how those interests connect.
BY KRISTIN DUISBERG
Ask Iris LaMoreaux about what she’s involved in at St. Paul’s School and you’ll immediately be struck by the breadth of her pursuits. The Sixth Former is a three-sport varsity athlete (soccer, ice hockey, and track and field); an editor for three School publications (The Pelican, The Partisan, and Horae Scholasticae); a trumpet player; a MISH officer; a peer tutor for multiple subjects, including math, physics, Spanish and music; and an online English-speaking tutor for a student in Ukraine. She’s a top math and science student, this year taking Multivariable Calculus Honors as well as advanced topics classes in both biology and physics, but she’s also deeply engaged in the humanities curriculum, enrolled in as many electives in the department as her senior year schedule will allow.
“Coming into St. Paul’s, I definitely had a wide range of interests,” she says, “but then I’ve gotten to be able to explore so much more here, and that’s something I really appreciate about the School.” Indeed, LaMoreaux doesn’t see anything surprising about her equal interest in STEM subjects and the humanities — or varsity sports and service to others, for that matter. For her, it’s all about developing a greater understanding of how the world works.
“That’s something I’m always thinking in my head — ‘Why does something happen the way it does? Why do we think a certain way?’,” she explains. Physics, LaMoreaux notes, is rooted in actual physical examples of that. But she sees it also in the complex, nuanced discussions that arise around the humanities Harkness table; in the student writing she helps shape particularly for The Partisan, a digital magazine that features columns and opinion pieces representing positions across the political spectrum; and even in the choreography of the 4x100 relay, which depends as much on perfectly timed and executed handoffs as it does sprinting speed.
Coming into St. Paul’s, I definitely had a wide range of interests, but then I’ve gotten to be able to explore so much more here.
— Iris LaMoreaux ’27
It was another of LaMoreaux’s sports — hockey — that put St. Paul’s on her radar. A club team player throughout middle school, she wanted to continue to play hockey in high school, but her local public school didn’t have a girls team. An academic standout — as an eighth grader, she was the only student to represent New Hampshire in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, making it to the quarter final round — LaMoreaux considered a variety of private schools for her next step. “Something I liked about St. Paul’s was that it seemed to have a lot to offer in terms of sports and academics and extracurriculars,” she explains.
As an added bonus, the School’s location kept LaMoreaux close to her parents, a local environmental advocate and an energy efficiency consultant-town selectman whom she credits for her curiosity, her interest in the humanities, and her pull toward public policy — an area she’s considering pursuing in college. Over the summer, she completed two public service-based internships: one with a state executive councilor and another with a nonpartisan nonprofit that advocates for the health and well-being of New Hampshire residents.
Academically, LaMoreaux has made her mark on the SPS community as a two-time winner of the Ferguson Award, the School’s highest award for academic achievement; a Dickey winner for humanities; and a Cum Laude Society early inductee. But almost any question about her own accomplishments evolves into an answer about teams and communities, as happens when she describes being one of several dozen students who used a surprise day off from classes last fall not to sleep in, but to restock the food pantry at Christ the King Parish in downtown Concord. “That was such a positive initiative for our community,” she says, “and it definitely had a positive impact on them, too.”
It’s another example of the connectedness LaMoreaux sees across her many St. Paul’s School experiences, and among the things she’s most appreciated about her time at the School. “There are so many ways to make a positive impact and benefit others,” she says, “and I think we are so well equipped to do that here.”
