A haunted house, relationships and sense of purpose: Class of 2026 reflects

As the class of 2026 prepares to gather on the Town Green for graduation, the Observer sat down with some of the class officers to talk about memories, their futures and what makes the Weston High School experience special.

The students, part of a class of 167, said their four years at Weston High School were full of memories and a shared desire to push each other, as well as success in the classroom, on athletic fields, in the theater and at musical performances.

While the highs were highlights, Treasurer Nicholas Polymeros said that moments in between made bigger impressions.

“What sticks out the most is the smaller and mundane moments … random conversations in class or at track practice, at a meet, or just with my friends after school. It’s the smaller moments,” Polymeros said. “It’s not a very exciting moment at all, but looking back it’s kind of nostalgic.”

Fellow treasurer Margaret Liu said the people around her at Weston High School, who are all “driven and motivated,” helped her grow. She is attending Princeton University in the fall and will be studying engineering.

“The thing that sticks out to me the most is the relationships that I’ve built in the last four years with my teachers and with my peers … I feel like it helped me develop into the person I am today,” Liu said. “Everyone works so hard at Weston and it’s really inspiring to look at the people around me … Everyone’s interests and strengths are so diverse, so any person you are friends with or who you partner with can learn something.”

JJ Cutter, student representative to the School Committee, said a close bond among his peers helped create these memories.

“There’s a lot of things that we’ll probably look back on and will be fond memories – even just last night we did our senior prank. We camped out in the faculty lot, the whole grade was there, we set up a projector and watched a movie,” Cutter said. “It’s one of those good bonding moments; something you can look back on in 20 years and you’ll definitely still remember.”

As for what makes Weston special? The students said it was the myriad interests among the student body and the passion everyone brought with them to school each day.

Class President Chelian Subbiah, who is attending the United States Naval Academy with the intention of studying economics, said “everybody has a sense of purpose here.”

“We’re a little bit of a smaller town and a smaller grade, and people really pull their weight in a way,” he said. “I think it’s really, really cool to see people step up and go beyond their role.”

He pointed to the class haunted house they created their sophomore year as an example of their grade pushing themselves.

“Pretty much our whole grade participated, it’s about 150 kids we’re coordinating with and each group had their own scene. We really gave them a lot of freedom in that,” Subbiah said. “I think everyone took it in a way that, ‘Yeah, this is for our grade and for our community,’ … and everyone just made it really fun.”

Polymeros, who is attending the College of the Holy Cross to potentially study chemistry and political science, said his experience at Weston High School was defined by the motivation of his peers.

“Not only is it small, it’s concentrated with a bunch of people that are very ambitious and want to do a lot of things,” he said. “No matter what you want to do, there probably will be someone that wants to do the same thing that you want to do.”

Cutter is attending Duke University in pursuit of a public policy degree, and he said Weston High School’s welcoming culture is a key reason why it does so well.

“I moved here my freshman year and I’ve been welcomed by everybody,” he said. “Weston’s just a very open community and I think that definitely helps create the atmosphere of togetherness.”