St Stephens Episcopal School

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

Private

At a glance

Programs & features
  • Teaches no APCollege-level courses with a national exam each May. A score of 3+ "passes" and can earn college credit; the pass rate tells you whether a school's AP program has substance behind the course list.-designated courses — common among independent schools that run their own advanced curriculum
Academic signals
  • SAT avg 1365 (25-75: 1260–1493)
  • ACT avg 30 (25-75: 27–34)

Composed from the school's own published profile (2025), and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How St Stephens Episcopal School compares for families

What families should know about St Stephens Episcopal School.

  • LocallyTX students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: St Andrew'S Episcopal School, Regents School Of Austin, Hyde Park 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).)

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 2021-2025 enrolled

St. Stephen's Episcopal School (Austin) publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 167 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.

College  ·  Students

The University of Texas at Austin 60
Rice University 19
University of Colorado Boulder 18
New York University 17
The University of Texas at San Antonio 12
Stanford University 10
University of California, Berkeley 10
Georgetown University 9
Texas A&M University 9
University of Virginia 9
University of Wisconsin-Madison 9
Cornell University 8
Trinity University 8
Tufts University 8
Tulane University 8
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 8
University of Southern California 8
Boston University 7
Lehigh University 7
Purdue University 7
The University of Texas at Dallas 7
University of Miami 7
University of Michigan 7
Vanderbilt University 7
Washington University in St. Louis 7
Dartmouth College 6
Emerson College 6
Emory University 6
George Washington University 6
Pomona College 6
and 137 more
Emory University-Oxford College 2
McGill University 2
University of Toronto 2
Blinn College 1
California College of the Arts 1
Catholic University of Louvain 1
Queen’s University Belfast 1
TEC de Monterrey 1
Trinity College Dublin 1
University of British Columbia 1
University of Sydney 1

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by St. Stephen's Episcopal School (Austin) — 2025-26 St. Stephen's Episcopal School Profile / College Counseling ↗. Found at: p.4, 'College Matriculations, Classes of 2021-2025'.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 686 in 2018 to 699 in 2022 — over 4 years.
+1.9%
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 St Stephens Episcopal School's own published school profile (as of 2025-26): resources.finalsite.net/images/v1757702326/sstxor… ↗

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +0.5%/year, projecting from 2022's 699 students:

2023
702
2025
709
2027
716

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

Revenue upside

At tuition per student, the 17 students projected to be gained by 2027 represent ≈ $272,000/year in tuition upside.

Tuition is an editable estimate (PSS doesn't publish tuition) — set it to your school's figure.

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
St Andrew'S Episcopal School
Austin
Private 4.6 973 +2.5%
Regents School Of Austin
Austin
Private 5.4 1,043 +4.0%
Hyde Park School
Austin
Private 5.5 739 +17.3%
St Andrews Episcopal School
Austin
Private 6.0 412 +312.0%
Waterloo School
Austin
Private 7.0 42
Hyde Park Schools
Austin
Private 7.5 747 +9.9%
St Michael'S Catholic Academy
Austin
Private 4.4 393 +7.7%
Brentwood Christian School
Austin
Private 9.0 629 -1.1%

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