The St. Stephen's Experience
St. Stephen's Episcopal School offers highly personalized learning in a supportive and inclusive campus community, where students are taught to achieve healthy, balanced lives and become responsible global citizens.
Academics
The academic program at St. Stephen's is grounded in the tradition of the liberal arts.
St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country, provides an engaging academic environment for boarding and day students who are known, supported and celebrated for their individual talents and interests.
The educational experience fosters openness, candor, tolerance and respect, as students learn how to develop independent points of view while using evidence to challenge or support hypotheses.
Our dedicated faculty and staff are tenacious and constant in their commitment to providing an academically challenging experience for our students within the context of a balanced program in academics, athletics and the arts. Our mission, vision and core values are rooted in progressive, yet resolute, principles — provide rigorous academics, build a diverse student body, develop creative thinkers, support social justice, shape global leaders, nourish the spirit, and look beyond ourselves to serve others and promote equity.
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Middle School
Middle School is a critical time, a bridge between elementary education and secondary education, between late childhood and pre-adolescence. Our distinguished Middle School faculty is diverse and accomplished in a wide range of fields, but it is united in its passion for helping students make this transition a successful and rewarding one.
Upper School
In today’s Information Age, critical thinking skills are more essential than ever. St. Stephen’s high school students learn more than facts and figures; they learn to question and reason independently. Our distinguished faculty is diverse and accomplished in a wide range of fields, but it is united in its passion for nurturing the intellectual and cultural growth of all students.
Why St. Stephen's?
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Academic Philosophies
Daily Schedules
The daily schedule is organized around chapel services, classes, study, meals, athletics and extracurricular activities. A seven-day, rotating schedule allows ample flexibility and variation and encourages boarding and day school students to learn to make decisions about their use of time.
Grading System
St. Stephen's created and uses a unique system of letter grades, known as HVGPUX.
H: Honors
V: Very Good
G: Good
P: Passing
U: Unsatisfactory
X: Failing
Numerical grades are not used, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Students are not assigned a grade point average, and it is uncommon for students to be awarded an "H" or "H+" grade. Additionally, each instructor prepares a written evaluation of the student's work, which we share with the student and their parents.
Meet the Associate Head of School for Academics and Student Programs
Kim Garey
B.A., Holy Cross
Kim Garey serves as the school’s first Associate Head of School for Academics and Student Programs. She assumed the role in the fall of 2024, which marked Garey’s 30th year on The Hill. She previously served in a number of administrative roles including Head of Upper School and the Academic Dean.
