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How St. Mark's School of Texas compares for families

What families should know about St. Mark's School of Texas.

  • LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: The Cambridge School Of Dallas, Episcopal School Of Dallas Pk-12, Akiba Yavneh Academy 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).)

Official program details ↗
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.)

Official program details ↗
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.)

Official program details ↗

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.

Their published matriculation list

Where the Classes of 2023-2025 enrolled

St. Mark's School of Texas publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 100 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.

College  ·  Students

University of Texas at Austin 31
Texas A&M University 17
Southern Methodist University 15
Brown University 13
Stanford University 7
University of Virginia-Main Campus 7
Washington University in St Louis 7
New York University 6
Rice University 6
Vanderbilt University 6
Boston College 5
Columbia University in the City of New York 5
Harvard University 5
Northwestern University 5
University of Chicago 5
Dartmouth College 4
Duke University 4
Johns Hopkins University 4
Purdue University-Main Campus 4
University of Miami 4
University of Pennsylvania 4
University of Southern California 4
Arizona State University 3
Austin Community College District 3
Bucknell University 3
Cornell University 3
Rhodes College 3
Texas Tech University 3
United States Air Force Academy 3
United States Military Academy 3
and 70 more
London School of Economics and Political Science 2
University of Bristol 2
University of Oxford 2
University of St Andrews 2
Orange Coast College 1

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by St. Mark's School of Texas — School Profile 2025-2026 ↗. Found at: page 3 of 3, 'COLLEGE MATRICULATIONS, Classes of 2023-2025'.

About this listing

St. Mark's School of Texas is listed by PSS 2020 · NAIS + founder list. Its enrollment figures below come from the most recent federal Private School Survey it answered; the survey is voluntary, and the school did not respond to the latest wave. The school's own site: www.smtexas.org ↗

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 876 in 2018 to 886 in 2020 — over 2 years.
+1.1%
Why only 2 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.

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.

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The Cambridge School Of Dallas
Dallas
Private 2.3 96 -20.0%
Episcopal School Of Dallas Pk-12
Dallas
Private 2.4 1,104 +2.2%
Akiba Yavneh Academy
Dallas
Private 2.5 317 +196.3%
Dallas Lutheran School
Dallas
Private 2.5 164 -4.7%
Mesorah High School For Girls
Dallas
Private 2.6 59
The Covenant School
Dallas
Private 2.7 670 +13.6%
Parish Episcopal School
Dallas
Private 3.6 1,090 +1.1%
Parish Episcopal School
Dallas
Private 3.9 1,100 +0.8%

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