Parish at a Glance
Mission: The mission of Parish Episcopal School is to provide an enriching and challenging educational experience within a Christian community of service and worship.
Grades: prekindergarten through 12th grade, co-educational, college preparatory, day school
Enrollment: 1,150
Cost: $9,990 to $19,650 annually
Accreditations/Memberships: ISAS, SAES, NAIS
Location:
Hillcrest Campus – prekindergarten through 2nd grades, Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration at Hillcrest and Spring Valley.
Midway Campus – third through 12th grades housed on 30 acres in North Dallas at former Exxon Mobil Research Facility designed by I.M. Pei at Midway and Spring Valley
School History: Founded as the Parish Day School by Mary Blair in 1972, the School started as a prekindergarten through 6th grade day school at the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. Mrs. Gloria Snyder served as head of school from 1980 to 2009 and fostered the growth from Parish Day to Parish Episcopal - a leading, prekindergarten through 12th grade, independent school. In 2009, Mr. Dave Monaco joined Parish as the third head of school in Parish history.
Episcopal Tradition: All students and faculty attend daily chapel. Parish welcomes students of all faiths and embraces the Episcopal traditions while emphasizing the value and dignity of diverse individual religious practices.
Academics: Parish offers a traditional, academic college-prep curriculum vwith a variety of rigorous and diverse course offerings as deemed appropriate.
College Placement: College guidance counseling begins in 9th grade. 100% of Parish graduates have been accepted into four-year college and universities.
Athletics: Eighteen sports (9 boys, 9 girls), 3 club sports, cheerleading, sports medicine and sports management.
Visual & Performing Arts: Choral and instrumental music, drama, film, journalism, speech, photography, ceramics, studio art, and sculpture
Community Service: fifteen hours is required per year
Technology: Even though technology is currently integrated throughout the curriculum including labs and smartboards, part of the current staregic planning is to include ways that technology can be implemented more innovatively
Class Trips:
Middle School: Camp Classen, Mo Ranch, Catalina Island and Washington, DC
Upper School: Class retreats for all grade levels
