St. Mark's School of Texas

The St. Mark's School of Texas is a nonsectarian preparatory day school for boys located in Dallas, Texas, USA. The school runs from first grade to twelfth grade.

Student life

Its 819 students are spread across grades one through 12. Classes average about 15 boys, and there is an overall student/faculty ratio of 8:1.

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Extracurricular activities and sports tend to be viewed as highly important. Its sports teams compete against similarly sized private schools in the Southwest Preparatory Conference http://www.spcsports.org/, an athletic conference created by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest. Certain teams—such as swimming, wrestling, golf, and tennis—compete against the largest schools in the state, while such teams as crew, water polo, lacrosse, and fencing are played enthusiastically at St. Mark's but are not widely followed in Texas.

Related Topics:
Southwest Preparatory Conference - Independent Schools Association of the Southwest

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St. Mark's students have long been nationally prominent in debate, math, science, chess, robotics, and other academic contests. An eighth-grade student won the National Spelling Bee in 2003, and the Upper School newspaper, yearbook, and literary magazine win national awards almost every year. All Upper School students participate in a community service program jointly undertaken with Hockaday.

Related Topics:
Debate - Math - Science - Chess - Robotics - National Spelling Bee - Newspaper - Yearbook - Literary magazine

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Typical SAT range (25th–75th percentile) is 1250–1520 http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=595361-1&inunId=2094&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1#Academic%20Program. In recent years, the most frequently attended colleges have been Brown, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and the Universities of Chicago, Pennsylvania, and Texas at Austin http://www.petersons.com/PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=595361-1&inunId=2094&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1.

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