St. Mark's School of Texas
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Established	1906
School type	Private, Non-sectarian
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Headmaster	Arnold E. Holtberg
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Location	Dallas, Texas, USA
Enrollment	817 boys
Faculty	106
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Mascot	Lion
Athletics	17 sports
Website	www.smtexas.org

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. Grades 1-4 are considered the Lower School, 5-8 are Middle School, and 9-12 are Upper School. Image File history File links StMarksTexasCrestColorImg. ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ... Dallas redirects here. ... TX can be either: TX can mean thanks or thank you - commonly used in instant messaging The telegraph and CW abbreviation for transmit (see also RX and Rx) the USPS state code for Texas, and domain name as in houston. ... Binomial name Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) The Lion (Panthera leo) is a mammal of the family Felidae. ... Sectarianism is an adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination, it also usually involves a rejection of those not a member of ones sect. ... A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school (usually abbreviated to preparatory school, college prep school, or prep school) is a private secondary school designed to prepare a student for higher education. ... Nickname: Big D Official website: www. ... Official language(s) See: Languages of Texas Capital Largest city Austin Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 268,581 sq. ...

History

St. Mark's was created in 1950 by a group of Dallas businessmen. The original name was reportedly to have been St. Stephen's, but a quick check revealed that St. Stephen is associated with the lamb. St. Mark's was apparently chosen because a lion was thought a more suitable mascot. St. ...

St. Mark's was developed out of three less-financed private schools: Terrill School (1906–44), Texas Country Day School (1933–50), and Cathedral School (1944–50). The school traces its history to Mr. Terrill's school, which he founded in 1906 as the city's first effort to create a private school that could rival its east coast counterparts. The Hockaday School for Girls was founded in 1913, and it became a "sister" school to St. Mark's. The Hockaday School The Hockaday School is an independent, nonreligious college preparatory day and boarding school for girls located in Dallas, Texas. ...

The school today

The school was historically fairly homogeneous and geared towards the sons of doctors, lawyers, and affluent businessmen. St. Mark's has made significant gains in terms of financial aid and minority recruitment, however, and now 28% of the school is composed of "students of color." Approximately 10% of students are involved with the financial aid program at St. Mark's as of 2005-2006. While the demographics have shifted, St. Marks remains most comfortable for boys who are smart, competitive, and at least somewhat athletic.

Eighty percent of the 106 faculty members have advanced degrees, while 25% have been at St. Mark's for more than twenty years. There are twelve endowed teaching positions, including nine endowed chairs.

Neatly organized across its forty acres are an array of buildings, most of which are named after well-known Dallas families. Texas Instruments' co-founders Cecil H. Green and Eugene McDermott[1] donated the math and science quadrangle, the main library, the greenhouse, the planetarium and the observatory. The Roosevelt family contributed a carillon in early 2005, Ralph Rogers [2] provided the natatorium, the Lamar Hunt family donated a football stadium, completed in the fall of 2005, and Tom Hicks, the owner of MLB's Texas Rangers and the NHL's Dallas Stars, funded a new gymnasium. Its arts facilities are also impressive. Time magazine once called St. Mark's the "best-equipped day school in the country." D Magazine also rated it the best school in the Dallas area. Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), better known in the electronics industry (and popularly) as TI, is a company based in Dallas, Texas, renowned for developing and commercializing semiconductor and computer technology. ... Cecil Howard Green (August 6, 1900 – April 11, 2003) was a geophysicist who trained at the University of British Columbia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a founder of the company Texas Instruments. ... Eugene McDermott (1899-1973)was a co-founder of Texas Instruments. ... A modern-style library in Chambéry In the traditional sense of the word, a library is a collection of books and periodicals. ... A greenhouse in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ... A planetarium is a theater built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. ... MolÄ—tai Astronomical Observatory An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial and/or celestial events. ... Roosevelt is a surname of Dutch origin, with the literal meaning of rose-field. ... The Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, Virginia, USA A carillon is a musical instrument composed of at least 23 cup-shaped bells played from a keyboard using fists and feet. ... Ralph Rogers was the founder of Texas Industries in 1951. ... A natatorium is, stricta sensu, a structurally separate building containing a swimming pool. ... Lamar Hunt is one of the most influential sports promoters in the United States. ... Tom Hicks at a Texas Rangers press conference. ... Major league affiliations American League (1961-present) West Division (1972-present) East Division (1969-1971) Major league titles World Series titles (0) None AL Pennants (0) None West Division titles (3) [1] 1999 â€¢ 1998 â€¢ 1996 Wild card berths (0) None [1] - In 1994, a players strike wiped out the last... The Dallas Stars are a National Hockey League (NHL) team based in Dallas, Texas. ... Modern indoor gymnasium with pull-down basketball hoops Gym, a shortened form of gymnasium, refers to facilities intended for indoor sports or exercise. ... (Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ... D Magazine is a monthly magazine covering the city of Dallas, Texas. ...

St. Mark's has long resisted efforts towards coeducation, though there are a half dozen courses that students can take with Hockaday students at the Hockaday campus. Its uniform has remained unchanged for decades: grey shorts or pants and white oxford shirts; seniors, though, have the option of wearing blue shirts. The school's mascot is the lion, and the official colors are proudly displayed as navy blue and gold.

The winged lion is commonly associated with St. Mark

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Student life

Its 817 students are spread across first through twelfth grade. Lower School classes average about 15 boys, and there is an overall student/faculty ratio of 8:1.

Extracurricular activities and sports are an integral part of campus life. Its sports teams compete against similarly sized private schools in the Southwest Preparatory Conference [3], 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 at St. Mark's but are not widely followed in the large public schools of Texas. Southwest Preparatory Conference is the athletic organization for many of the most prominent private high schools in the southwest. ... The Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) is a group of private schools from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, and Mexico. ... A breaststroke swimmer Swimming is a technique to move unaided through water. ... The Wrestlers from Uffizi Gallery, Florence. ... Golf (gowf in Scots) is a game where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ... Tennis ball This article is about the sport. ... A crew comprises a body or a class of people who work at a common activity, generally in a structured or hierarchical organization. ... Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, ice hockey, rugby and wrestling. ... The Dive Shot. A womens lacrosse player carries the ball past a defender. ... Russian Ivan Tourchine and American Weston Kelsey fence in the second round of the Olympic Mens Individual Épée event at the Helliniko Fencing Hall on Aug. ...

Currently, marksmen may participate in 36 Upper School clubs and academic teams, a list of which can be found here. St. Mark's students have long been nationally prominent in policy debate, where this year one team placed in the top twenty of the nation. [4] It also hosts one of the biggest debate tournaments in the nation, the St. Mark's Heart of Texas Invitational. Debate or debating is a formal method of interactive and position representational argument. ... This article is about policy speech competitions at the high school and college level. ...

St. Mark's math team annually chalks up first place at the MathCounts competition. [5] The robotics team have often "won the prestigious BEST award for their engineering design process." [6] Also, St. Mark's is prominent in foreign language, offering Spanish, Latin, Japanese, German, and Chinese (co-ed). Students take top honors almost every year in the National Spanish Exam, Japan Bowl, and various Latin Conventions. Incorrect shortening of Mathematics. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with robot. ... It has been suggested that History of the Latin language be merged into this article or section. ...

The Upper School newspaper The Remarker, literary magazine The Marque, and the yearbook win national awards nearly every year. For example, in both 2005 and 2006, St. Mark's was the only school in the country in which each of its three publications was a finalist for the Crown awards, given annually by Columbia University [7]. A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. ... A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a book to record and commemorate the past year of a school or a book published annually as a report or summary of statistics or facts. ...

Typical SAT range (25th–75th percentile) is 1250–1520 [8]. In recent years, the most frequently attended colleges have been Harvard, Duke, Dartmouth, Emory, Brown, Georgetown, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, and the University of Texas at Austin. The SAT (pronounced S-A-T) Reasoning Test, formerly called the Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test, is a type of standardized test frequently used by colleges and universities in the United States to aid in the selection of incoming students. ...

St. Mark's offers one of the most diverse selection of courses in the state, the latest version of which is found here

Graduation Requirements

 * 4 years of English * 3 years of Social Studies * 3 years of laboratory Science * 3 years of Mathematics * 3 years of one Foreign Language * 1 year of Fine Arts * 1 year of Elective courses * 4 years of Physical Education or Athletics * Satisfactory completion of the Senior Exhibition. * 15 hours of Community Service during each school year (co-curricular) 

Notable alumni

• Richard Bass '46. Owner, Snowbird Ski Resort. Mountain climber. [9]
• George Bayoud '73. Real Estate Investor, Politician. [10]
• William Clarkson '66. President, The Westminster Schools [11]
• Robert Decherd '69. Chairman and CEO, Belo, a media conglomerate. [12]
• Kurt Eichenwald '79. Journalist. [13]
• Sai Gunturi '07. 2003 National Spelling Bee champion
• Robert Hoffman '65. Co-Founder, National Lampoon. Businessman. [14]
• Clark Hunt '83. CEO, Kansas City Chiefs. [15]
• Tommy Lee Jones '65. Actor. [16]
• Steve Jurvetson '85. Investment Banker. [17]
• David Laney '67. Chairman, Amtrak. [18]
• Michael R. Levy '64. Founder and Publisher, Texas Monthly [19]
• Doug Mankoff '81 Independent Film Producer [20]
• Rhett Miller '89. Musician, Old 97's. [21]
• Steve Miller '61. Musician. [22]
• Dr. Philip O'Bryan Montgomery '37. Physician. [23]
• H. Ross Perot, Jr. '77. Executive Chairman, Perot Systems, Real Estate Developer. [24]
• Boz Scaggs '62. Musician. [25]
• Douglas St. Clair Smith, aka Ivan Stang '71. Minister and Alleged Founder of the satirical Church of the SubGenius.[26]
• Mark Stern '77. Mathematician. [27]
• Jeffrey Swann '69. Classical Pianist. [28]
• Kalen Thornton '00. Linebacker, Dallas Cowboys. [29]
• Luke Wilson '90. Actor. [30]
• Owen Wilson - until expulsion. Actor. [31]
• Craig Zisk '83. Television Director.

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External links

• St. Mark's School of Texas website
• Peterson's Guide to Private Schools
• St. Mark's School of Texas on Placeopedia

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