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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/The Hockaday School
		The school was founded in 1913 by Ela Hockaday in response to parental demand for a college preparatory school for girls.
		The school colors are green and white, and the current school uniform for Upper and Middle School consists of saddle-oxfords, white dress shirts or polo shirts, and a uniform green and white plaid skirt.
		Recently the school has undergone major construction and innovation initiatives, which have included the introduction of a laptop program (now all Middle and Upper Schoolers are issued laptop computers to use in and out of school for their assignments) as well as the addition of Smartboard technology to each classroom.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/The_Hockaday_School (1902 words)

	The Hockaday School - Peterson's In-Depth Description
		The Hockaday School, founded in 1913, provides a nationally recognized college-preparatory education for bright girls of strong potential who may be expected to assume positions of responsibility and leadership in a rapidly changing world.
		Hockaday’s teachers are chosen for depth of knowledge in their fields of specialization, personal integrity, and the ability to facilitate the progress of individual students.
		Because the School requires a student to attend the School for at least two years to be eligible for graduation, new students are not normally admitted to the senior class.
	www.petersons.com /PSchools/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=599811-1&inunId=1072&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1 (2086 words)

	Ela Hockaday More Than a School Omarm.
		Ela Hockaday, a native of Ladonia and a citizen of the world, was more than a school Omarm to several generations of girls who were privileged to enroll in her exclusive finishing school in Dallas.
		Miss Hockaday's school began as a preparatory school, or "finishing school." Soon elementary and even junior college courses were added to the top and bottom of the curriculum, though the post-secondary section was later discontinued.
		The school offered instruction in the basic courses of a liberal arts education, as well as music and other skills calculated to the achievement of excellence in academics, athletics, and "fine character." The school encouraged its charges to visit foreign countries and to learn about different cultures.
	www.texasescapes.com /AllThingsHistorical/Ela-Hockaday-More-Than-a-School-Omarm-AM804.htm (374 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Ela Hockaday, school founder, was born in Ladonia, Texas, on March 12, 1875, to Thomas Hart Benton and Maria Elizabeth (Kerr) Hockaday.
		She taught at the Presbyterian school in Durant, Oklahoma, and was science instructor and subsequently head of the biology department at Durant State Normal School (1910-12), where she became a close friend of fellow faculty member Sarah Trent.
		On the recommendation of M. Terrill, who had headed the teachers' college in Denton that Hockaday attended, a group of Dallas residents invited her to establish a girls' preparatory school that would be the equivalent of the boys' school that Terrill was then operating.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/HH/fho6.html (523 words)

	The Hockaday School
		The main entrance to the school is on your left in the middle of the block.
		Hockaday is the largest independent girls' school in the country, and it is one of only a few boarding schools in the state of Texas.
		A non-profit corporation, Hockaday is directed by a Board of Trustees who represent alumnae, parents, and the community.
	www.hockaday.org /admission/visitor/directions.asp (510 words)

	Girls Boarding Schools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Dozens of parents are facing the start of the new school year with the same questions and concerns and the best way to combat these concerns is to be as pro-active as possible.
		Miss Hall's School mission is to provide a school committed to preparing young women for full and satisfying lives in the modern world by incorporatin experiential learning into a comprehensive, college preparatory education, adapting students' programs to build on their strengths.
		NCGS members share a commitment to the values and benefits of single-sex schools for girls, and a belief that all girls, regardless of educational setting, deserve the opportunity to realize their potential, to be active and equal, confident and competent leaders, participants and contributors.
	www.boardingschoolsinfo.com /categories/Speciality-Boarding-Schools_Girls-Boarding-Schools.asp (1598 words)

	The Hockaday School - Boarding School Profile
		Hockaday is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest."
		"The Hockaday School, established in 1913 by Miss Ela Hockaday and a group of concerned parents, provides an outstanding college preparatory education for girls in the prekindergarten through twelfth grades.
		Hockaday prepares girls of strong potential to assume positions of responsibility and leadership in a rapidly changing world by giving them a foundation for living grounded on the traditional four cornerstones: character, courtesy, scholarship, athletics.
	www.boardingschoolreview.com /school_ov/school_id/54 (211 words)

	The Hockaday School - Student Review #1
		Hockaday is also an all girls school, an environment in which many girls are more comfortable.
		However, Hockaday still offers advanced math and foreign language classes during the freshman year, and since everyone in the school is very academically gifted anyway, the classes are not in any way uninteresting.
		Often certain athletic teams had a (sometimes well-earned) reputation for drinking, etc. This was sometimes embarrasssing for the school, and especially for the athletes on the notorious team that did not participate in such activities.
	www.boardingschoolreview.com /student_rev/stid/136 (1381 words)

	Texas ASLA Award Winners Archive http://aslatx.tamu.edu/
		Set into the center of the campus, the ARC is an imposing structure that could have easily seemed to push the adjacent grove of existing live oak trees away from it.
		As a facility used by all Hockaday students, it would be important to convey a comfortable environment in and around the building for a preschooler at story time as well as the senior drafting admissions essays.
		Hockaday has declared the projects a success, having already adopted and found the spaces integral to campus life.
	archone.tamu.edu /aslatx/projects/03/03ths/03ths.asp (1190 words)

	Private Boarding School Texas,Girls Middle,Upper High Schools USA
		The Hockaday School in Dallas, TX, established in 1913 by Miss Ela Hockaday and a group of concerned parents, provides an outstanding college preparatory education for girls in grades 8 through 12 (boarding); and Pre-K through 12 (day).
		Originally founded as a boarding school, Hockaday has kept its boarding community small and intimate within a school population that has grown to over 1,000 students.
		The Middle School curriculum reaches for a balance academically, socially, physically, and morally and is based on the wide variety of developmental changes found in our students between grades five and eight.
	www.learn4good.com /great_schools/usa_texas_private_boarding_college_preparatory.htm (336 words)

	Opting out of private school (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		And increasingly, public schools are enriching their programs by holding the same kinds of fund-raisers often associated with private schools, such as auctions and capital campaigns.
		While he says it was not a main motivator, having students return to the school increased state funding, as the district is paid on a per-pupil basis.
		The percentage of public-school students enrolled in a chosen school was 15 percent in 1999, up from 11 percent in 1993, according to the Department of Education.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06258/722158-298.stm (2260 words)

	The Hockaday School
		Because of her foresight and the support of the community and alumnae of The Hockaday School, it has flourished in the years since its founding.
		Miss Hockaday’s commitment to an all-girl education has proven to be a highly effective method still used today, instilling in our students the opportunity to succeed in the classroom, on the field of competition and in service to the community.
		The Hockaday School has benefited from numerous deferred gifts, those in which the school as been named as the beneficiary of a gift that will become effective at some point in the future.
	www.plan.gs /Article.do?orgId=5099&articleId=6670 (509 words)

	Dallas Voice :: GLBT students face obstacles
		The presence of supportive staff at schools contributed to reports of greater sense of safety, fewer reports of missed school days and a higher incidence of planning to attend college.
		Although The Hockaday School is becoming more accepting with gay-inclusive clubs such as GSA and Race Relations, which conducts forums on sexual orientation, there is still a long way to go.
		Schools are supposed to serve as “safe zones,” it’s time they stood up against harassment and bullying of all students.
	www.dallasvoice.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/23/2171 (967 words)

	St. Marks School of Texas
		Mark's School of Texas is a non-sectarian, college-preparatory, independent day school for boys in grades one through twelve.
		The School's charter states that it is "designed to afford its students well-rounded physical, intellectual, moral, and religious training and instruction." We intend the School to be a diverse community of teachers and students who share a love of learning and who strive for high achievement in whatever they undertake.
		In 1946, Terrill School became The Cathedral School, which in turn merged in 1950 with Texas Country Day School, founded in 1933, to form St. Mark's School of Texas.
	www.smtexas.org /about/administration/default.asp?strId=6398 (334 words)

	Middle School Finalists
		She attended school in Abilene most of her life, but due to the untimely death of her mother, moved and graduated from The Hockaday School in Dallas.
		Lana Brunner was a life-long resident of Abilene, attended school in AISD, and graduated from McMurry.
		There were numerous situations in which he enabled students to stay in school, to overcome hardships and personal situations that could have caused them to fail in life.
	www.aisd.org /news/finalists.htm (2132 words)

	Boarding Schools in Texas
		A young woman leaves Incarnate Word High School with an inquiring mind, a confident assessment of her own self-worth, and with the empowerment to make a difference in the Church and in her community.
		Anthony Catholic High School offers a wide variety of academic, athletic, and and other life experiences, guiding students to critically assess their own values and those of society.
		Stephen's Episcopal School, a coeducational boarding-and-day school of the Diocese of Texas, is a caring, diverse, Christian community that nurtures moral growth and values the potential and dignity of every human being.
	www.boardingschoolsinfo.com /categories/Boarding-Schools-By-State_Boarding-Schools-in-Texas.asp (667 words)

	The Education Group: Candidate Services
		One of the country’s finest college preparatory schools, the school was founded almost a century ago and continues today to build on its original four cornerstones of: Scholarship, Character, Courtesy, and Athletics.
		Hockaday’s 438 upper school students are a vibrant community reflecting an exceptional balance of awareness and inquiry, success and competition, and independence and collaboration.
		In assuming the various responsibilities in heading a division, the next Upper School Head is expected to embrace the founding principles and traditions of this unique single-sex school.
	www.educationgroup.com /candidate/hockaday-upper.html (464 words)

	Friends of Holy Trinity Catholic School
		He attended and graduated from Jesuit High School in 1963, this was the last graduating class from the "Old Jesuit High School" which was directly across the street from Holy Trinity Catholic School.
		Cathy was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, attended and graduated from Holy Trinity Catholic School in 1961.
		C.D. was born in Dallas,Texas and graduated from Holy Trinity Catholic School in 1966, the fourth of six siblings to go throught the school.
	www.friendsofhtcs.org /board.htm (2820 words)

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		The Bickel & Brewer Foundation has created a $3 million scholarship program at the St. Mark's School of Texas and The Hockaday School to benefit economically-disadvantaged children for the next 20 years.
		The St. Mark's School of Texas and The Hockaday School are preparatory schools for boys and girls, respectively.
		Members of the prestigious National Association of Independent Schools, the schools are widely recognized as among the top prep schools in the country.
	www.bickelbrewer.com /index.php?id=44 (158 words)

	Origin of Hockaday surname (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The first record of any Hockaday in England is the baptism of Thomas, son of Clemt (Clement) Hockaday in Ashwater, Devon in 1563, even though records of births and deaths were recorded from the year 1539.
		The alternate school of thought on the origin of "Hockaday" is that it derived from the medieval festival of "Hock Day" (High Day).
		The first "a" of Hockaday was eventually inserted so there would not be three consecutive consonants in the name.
	www.panam.edu /dept/csl/hockaday/Origin.html (505 words)

	Junior Boarding School \| Fay School \| Southborough MA
		He served as Head of Middle School at McDonough School in Baltimore from 1999 to 2002, and as Assistant Head of Middle School (1996-1999) and as 7th and 8th grade English teacher (1994-1996) at The Hockaday School in Dallas.
		Rob attended New Canaan Country School (1975-1981), Phillips Exeter Academy (1981-1984) and the University of Virginia, where he received his BA in English (1988) and his M.Ed.
		Fay School serves coed students in grades 1 to 9.
	www.fayschool.org /fay/about/article.asp?id=51 (366 words)

	Ann and Nate Levine Academy - Frequently Asked Questions
		Those applying to private schools have been accepted to Greenhill School, The Hockaday School, St. Markâs School of Texas, Episcopal School of Dallas, Lakehill Preparatory School, Parish Episcopal School, American Hebrew Academy and Yavneh Academy.
		Those going to public schools are typically placed in honors programs and AP programs, or attend Magnet Schools and the International Baccalaureate Program in Plano.
		We have developed a lower school project, Challenge and Discovery, which is designed to enhance academic offerings and challenges and to expand students' learning experiences.
	www.ssadallas.com /about/faq.aspx (1329 words)

	Origin of Hockaday surname
		The first record of any Hockaday in England is the baptism of Thomas, son of Clemt (Clement) Hockaday in Ashwater, Devon in 1563, even though records of births and deaths were recorded from the year 1539.
		The alternate school of thought on the origin of "Hockaday" is that it derived from the medieval festival of "Hock Day" (High Day).
		The first "a" of Hockaday was eventually inserted so there would not be three consecutive consonants in the name.
	www.utpa.edu /dept/csl/hockaday/Origin.html (505 words)

	Total Door and Hockaday School: A Perfect Fit
		When Hockaday School, an all-girls college preparatory academy in Dallas, Texas, began a remodeling project for its Middle and Upper School buildings in 2005, the challenge was to keep the school's open, airy feel in tact, while at the same time not compromising safety.
		This section of the school was built in 1961 and designed with a focus on openness and flow.
		With classes being held in portable buildings, it was critical this remodeled facility open in time for the start of the school year.
	www.buildings.com /Articles/detail.asp?ArticleID=3641 (957 words)

	TABS: School Finder - Search Results
		Founded in 1913 and among this country's leading girls' schools, Hockaday offers a rigorous, college-preparatory program for girls in grades 8 through 12 (boarding); and pre-K through 12 (day).
		Hockaday seeks to enroll a diverse student body.
		Currently 8 states and 7 countries are represented in our student body; 26% are students of color; and 3% are international students.
	www.schools.com /directory/adv_search/schooldetail.cfm?id=29 (94 words)

	SSAT School Search: The Hockaday School
		Founded in 1913 and one of this country's leading girls schools, Hockaday offers a rigorous college-preparatory program for girls in grades 8 through 12 (boarding); and Pre-K through 12 (day).
		Hockaday seeks to enroll a diverse student body, and currently 7 states and 11 countries are represented.
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