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| {{Infobox_School2 | name = St. Mark's School of Texas | |||
| | image = ] | |||
| | established = ] | |||
| |motto = Excellence | |||
| | type = ], Non-sectarian | |||
| | head_name = Headmaster | |||
| | head = ] | |||
| | city = ] | |||
| | state = ] | |||
| | country = ] | |||
| | campus = 40 ]s | |||
| | faculty = 106 | |||
| | students = 822 boys | |||
| | mascot = ] | |||
| | free_label = Athletics | |||
| | free = 17 sports | |||
| | website = <br>* | |||
| }} | |||
| '''The St. Mark's School of Texas''' is a ] ] day school for boys located in ], ], USA. The school begins at first grade and continues through the twelfth grade. | |||
| ==History== | |||
| St. Mark's was created in 1950 by a group of Dallas businessmen. The original name was to have been St. Stephen's, but ] is associated with the lamb. St. Mark's was chosen because a lion was thought a more suitable mascot. | |||
| 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. ] for Girls was founded in 1913, and it became a "sister" school to St. Mark's. | |||
| ==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. | |||
| 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. ]' co-founders ] and ] donated the math and science quadrangle, the main ], the ], the ] and the ]. The ] contributed a ] in early 2005, ] provided the ], the ] family donated a football stadium, completed in the fall of 2005, and ], the owner of MLB's ] and the NHL's ], funded a new ]. Its arts facilities are also impressive. '']'' magazine once called St. Mark's the "best-equipped day school in the country." ] also rated it the best school in the Dallas area. | |||
| The most commonly attended colleges by graduates between 1992 and 2002 were | |||
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| 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, wear blue shirts. The school's mascot is the lion, and the official colors are navy blue and gold. | |||
| ==Student life== | |||
| Its 817 students, also known as marksmen, 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 ] , an athletic conference created by the ]. Certain teams—such as ], ], ], and ]—compete against the largest schools in the state, while such teams as ], ], ], ], and ] are played at St. Mark's but are not widely followed in the large public schools of Texas. | |||
| St. Mark's offers 36 Upper School clubs and academic teams, a list of which can be found St. Mark's students have long been nationally prominent in ]. The school also hosts one of the biggest debate tournaments in the nation, the ]. | |||
| The Upper School ] ''The Remarker'', ] ''The Marque'', and the ] 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 ; no other school has placed three finalists in one year for at least fifteen years. In 2006, all three St. Mark's publications won Gold Crowns. Many of the other teams are similarly prominent in contests involving math, robotics, science, and languages. | |||
| Typical ] range (25th–75th percentile) is 1290–1560 | |||
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| ==Notable alumni== | |||
| * ] '46. Owner, ] Ski Resort. Mountain climber. | |||
| * ] '73. Real Estate Investor, Politician. | |||
| * ] '66. President, ] | |||
| * ] '69. Chairman and ], ], a media conglomerate. | |||
| * ] '79. Journalist. | |||
| * ] '07. 2003 ] champion | |||
| * ] '32. ] and ]. | |||
| * ] '83. ], ]. | |||
| * ] '85. Venture Capitalist, ]. | |||
| * ] '65. Actor. | |||
| * ] '67. Chairman, ]. | |||
| * ] '64. Founder and Publisher, ] | |||
| * ] '81. Vocalist and guitarist for rock band ]. | |||
| * ] '37. Physician. | |||
| * ] '77. Executive Chairman, ], Real Estate Developer. | |||
| * ] '91. Musician. | |||
| * ] '01. Catcher, ]. | |||
| * ] '00. Linebacker, ]. | |||
| * ] '90. Actor. | |||
| * ] - Actor, expelled sophomore year. | |||
| * ] '89. Singer, ]. | |||
| ==External links== | |||
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| *{{placeopedia|title=St. Mark's School of Texas|id=8563}} | |||
| {{Southwest Preparatory Conference}} | |||
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