Dallas Lutheran School

Dallas · TX · Religious-affiliated · K-12 combined

Private
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📖14 AP courses

📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • 📚 14 AP courses offered (school profile)
  • 🏆 1 National Merit Semifinalists last year
Academic signals
  • 📝 SAT avg 1280 (25-75: 1220–1350)
  • 📝 ACT avg 28.0 (25-75: 26–30)
  • 📚 AP exam pass rate 78.0% (avg score 3.8)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, the school's own published profile, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Dallas Lutheran School compares for families

What families should know about Dallas Lutheran School.

  • LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Akiba Yavneh Academy, Mesorah High School For Girls, The Covenant School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🏛️ Your state's public flagship

The University of Texas at Austin

29%
admit rate
$11,688
in-state tuition/yr · $44,908 out-of-state
1230–1490
SAT 25–75 · ACT 27–33

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $19,857/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

💰 Pay for college in Texas

Texas's public scholarships

Texas families have two big levers: a guaranteed-admission rule for the top of each graduating class, and the need-based TEXAS Grant that pairs with it. Class rank does more here than almost anywhere.

Auto-admit Top 10% Automatic Admission
Guaranteed admission to a Texas public university (not a $ award)
GPA: Top 10% class rank (UT Austin caps at top 5%)

Graduate in the top 10% of your Texas public-HS class and finish the required curriculum for automatic admission to TX public universities (UT Austin caps at the top 5%). (Must finish the required college-prep curriculum (Distinguished plan).)

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Need-based TEXAS Grant
Up to $16,182/yr (tuition & required fees)
GPA: No GPA gate to qualify (3.0 / top-third = priority) Income: Need-based (federal Student Aid Index)

Texas's flagship need-based grant — no GPA gate to qualify (a 3.0 or top-third rank just gives priority when funds run short). (Enroll within 16 months of HS, ≥¾ time, in a bachelor's program.)

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Merit Texas First Early Completion Scholarship
Scholarship equal to the TEXAS Grant amount
GPA: 3.0 Test: SAT/ACT at the 80th percentile OR top-10% class rank

Graduate at least a semester early with the Distinguished plan plus a 3.0 GPA and an 80th-percentile test (or top-10% rank) for a TEXAS Grant-sized scholarship. (Graduate at least a semester early with the Distinguished plan.)

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Eligibility rules change yearly — confirm with the official program before relying on it. Amounts are recent published figures; awards cover tuition/fees, not housing or books unless noted. Verified 2026-06-14.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 172 in 2018 to 164 in 2022 — over 4 years.
-4.7%
Why only 3 data points?

Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.

For a more current snapshot, see Dallas Lutheran School's own published school profile (as of 2024-25): www.dallaslutheranschool.com/admissions ↗

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -1.2%/year, projecting from 2022's 164 students:

2023
162
2025
158
2027
155

A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Akiba Yavneh Academy
Dallas
Private 0.9 317 +196.3%
Mesorah High School For Girls
Dallas
Private 1.4 59
The Covenant School
Dallas
Private 1.7 670 +13.6%
The Cambridge School Of Dallas
Dallas
Private 2.2 96 -20.0%
Parish Episcopal School
Dallas
Private 2.8 1,090 +1.1%
I A N T Quranic Academy
Richardson
Private 2.9 237
Qalam Collegiate Academy
Richardson
Private 4.3 88
Episcopal School Of Dallas Pk-12
Dallas
Private 4.8 1,104 +2.2%

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