The Hockaday School

The Hockaday School is an independent, nonreligious college preparatory day and boarding school for girls located in Dallas, Texas. The boarding school is for girls in grades 8–12 and the day school is from pre-kindergarten to grade 12.

The school today

Hockaday has occupied its current campus in a residential area of Northwest Dallas since 1961. The enrollment is approximately 1000 students from pre-K to 12, about 450 in the Upper School. The student to faculty ratio is approximately 10:1, and 100% of graduating seniors go on to college. Recent graduates have attended Harvard, Yale, UPenn, UT-Austin, USC, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Olin College of Engineering, and Duke.

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The school colors are green and white, and the current school uniform for Upper and Middle School consists of saddle-oxfords, white dress shirts or polo shirts, and a uniform green and white plaid skirt. Girls may also wear solid-green skirts or, if they are in Upper School, a green and white kilt. Green blazers are added on "dress uniform days" for grades 5–11, while seniors gain the privilege of wearing white blazers. It is viewed as a rite of passage to earn one's white blazer, along with the class ring, at the end of junior year. In the past the uniform has included such dated items as green and white plaid bell-bottoms.

Related Topics:
School uniform - Saddle-oxfords - Bell-bottoms

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The school crest bears a unicorn, but in the 1980s the student council voted to adopt the "Killer Daisy" as a mascot. This stems from the nickname for students at Hockaday: Hockadaisies. Though there has been debate among the students to change the mascot over the past few years, it has remained unchanged.

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Hockaday's brother school is the St. Mark's School of Texas, which is located a few miles away. Hockadaisies may take classes that are not offered on their home campus at St. Mark's instead and vice versa. This allows the two schools to offer subjects that are in lower demand while keeping options open for their students. For instance, French, AP Statistics, and AP Studio Art are taught exclusively at Hockaday, while German, AP Economics, and Psychology are taught exclusively at St. Mark's, and Drama is split. AP Environmental Science, which used to be taught exclusively at St. Mark's, has been started up separately at Hockaday.

Related Topics:
St. Mark's School of Texas - French - AP - Statistics - Studio Art - German - Psychology - Drama

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