Episcopal High School

Imagine a school that frees you to find the extraordinary, God-given talent that makes you STAND OUT. Welcome to Episcopal High School, a co-educational, college prep experience that stokes boundless potential with unlimited opportunity. For more than 30 years, we’ve set the standard in helping students realize their promise. We do that by challenging you to see things in bold, new ways. Here, you’ll discover everything you can do and everything you’re meant to be.

Episcopal High School is an institution of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas, established for the purpose of providing a superior education in preparation for college and a significant life thereafter. Through a rich offering of academic, spiritual, artistic, and athletic programs, the School provides an opportunity for each student to reach his or her maximum spiritual, intellectual, social, and ethical potential. Operating as a Christian community within the beliefs and traditions of the Episcopal Church, EHS in its teaching philosophy emphasizes understanding and responding to the individual needs and capabilities of each student. In an effort to reflect the community we serve, EHS strives to maintain a student body that represents social, economic, ethnic, and academic diversity.

Like all family systems, EHS has established those guidelines and boundaries necessary to preserve order, enhance general welfare, and protect individuals and the community. All students are expected to exercise good judgment in their actions and to show an abiding concern for themselves, groups, and the community itself. Students must value the privilege of being associated with EHS. Parents, too, need to be vigilant, cooperative, and eager to honor and assist the School’s efforts, endeavors, and spirit. Recognizing that “attitude is everything” is an effective guideline to follow in honoring the School community and its decision-making process. Respect and personal honor, reflected in daily attitudes and behaviors, are expected of those who belong to, serve, and support genuine community:

• EHS will continue to provide a strong, spiritually based, college-preparatory education for the average-to-exceptional student.
• EHS derives its identity from being a Christian community within the beliefs and traditions of the Episcopal Church; furthermore, without compromising its underlying faith, traditions, and practices, the School acknowledges and respects the freedom and variety of religious experiences among its faculty, staff, and students.
• EHS emphasizes the development of sound character, integrity, and personal honor; consequently, in every aspect of a student’s experience, EHS will instill the virtues of honesty, respect for self and others, fair play, appreciation of diversity, and service to the community.
• EHS admits qualified and motivated college-bound students with average-to-exceptional abilities and a wide range of interests and activities, creating a diverse community of students, admitted without regard to race, religion, or social/economic background.
• The student body must be large enough to ensure the viability of the School’s program, but not so large that the School’s family atmosphere is diminished.
• EHS will recruit, sustain, and appropriately compensate an administration and faculty of the highest academic and moral standards who are committed to the School’s mission and to the education and nurturing of students.
• As a shared responsibility, education succeeds when both school and parents exhibit understanding of, respect for, and dedication to the individual, the family, and the School community.
• EHS will cultivate with its students and their families a relationship that will last the rest of their lives.
• The successful accomplishment of the School’s mission requires facilities appropriate for the School’s activities.
• By adopting sound policies, providing a strong financial base, and promoting the School in the wider community, the Board of Trustees assumes ultimate responsibility for ensuring that EHS accomplishes its mission.

Every Knight is full of brain power and creative energy. We help our students free it. How? Small, intense classes and state-of-the-art facilities, for starters. Plus, mind-opening courses: Through our Interim Term, students travel to experience Chinese culture first-hand, uncover the complexity of baseball statistics, and design their own runway fashion shows. EHS teachers are experts at spotting talent, drawing out strengths, and pushing students to be fearless explorers. They challenge you to question, test, reimagine, and reinvent the world.

Through a rich offering of over 180 courses across the Four Pillars, EHS helps students to develop independence and self-direction, creative problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, persistence, and open-mindedness. Our goal is to equip students with skills and concepts that they can apply successfully in new situations, to question assumptions, evaluate information, and make courageous decisions. Our arts programs teach students to see, experiment, invent, and imagine in ways that are an inherent part of the creative process. Academic classes in religion strengthen both the intellect and the spirit, and a thoughtfully designed and varied curriculum in wellness, as well as the many athletic offerings, provide many opportunities for students to enhance their physical health. The faculty of 92 men and women, with over 60% holding advanced degrees, is committed to preparing EHS students for college and a significant life thereafter.