St. Mark's School of Texas
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10600 Preston Road Dallas, Texas 75230 United States |
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| Coordinates | 32°53′25″N 96°48′03″W / 32.890363°N 96.800762°WCoordinates: 32°53′25″N 96°48′03″W / 32.890363°N 96.800762°W |
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| Type | Private, day, college-prep boys' school |
| Motto | Courage and Honor |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Non-sectarian Episcopal (historically) |
| Established | 1906 |
| Headmaster | David W. Dini |
| Faculty | 125 |
| Grades | 1–12 |
| Number of students | 845 |
| Campus | 40 acres (16 ha) |
| Athletics conference | SPC |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Endowment | over $100 million |
| Tuition | $22,627–$28,149 |
| Website | smtexas |
The St. Mark's School of Texas is a nonsectarian preparatory day school for boys in grades 1–12 in Dallas, Texas, US accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest.
St. Mark's traces its origins to the Terrill School for Boys, which was founded by Menter B. Terrill in 1906. The six original teachers included Terrill, who had been valedictorian at Yale, as well as his wife, Ada (one of the first female graduate students at Yale), and his father, James, a former college president. Terrill's school was explicitly intended to rival east coast prep schools. Terrill quickly recruited the sons of some of Dallas' most affluent citizens and also boarding students from throughout the southwest. By 1915, Terrill School sent 14 of its 33 graduates to Ivy League colleges.
As headmaster, Terrill encouraged Miss Ela Hockaday to open a girls' school in Dallas in 1913. Schools descended from Terrill have had some affiliation with the Hockaday School for over a century, with shared social events, artistic performances, and some classes.
After Terrill retired in 1916, the school became increasingly seen as a sports school, liberally recruiting "semi-pro athletes" who allowed the school to compete against much larger high schools as well as teams of college freshmen from Rice, SMU, and TCU. St. Mark's sports teams were very successful during the era, often going undefeated and winning state high school championships in both football and ice hockey in the 1920s. In 1930, the football team was undefeated and unscored upon, and the basketball team won a prep school national championship.
The Terrill School soon faced academic competition from Texas Country Day, founded in 1933 with 10 boys and four teachers. Within two years of its creation, Texas Country Day was advertising that its faculty included "Rhodes Scholar and Harvard, Dartmouth, and Amherst men." In 1939, the school recruited the previous year's Heisman Trophy winner, Davey O'Brien, to be its three-days-a-week football coach; 61 of 65 high school boys tried out for spring football that year.
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