Why Jesuit

Are you wondering what the Jesuit Dallas Experience is like? Let our students tell you in their own words:

9:1 student-teacher ratio
Student-centered counseling program
Nearly 150 courses and over 80 extracurricular activities
24 AP course offerings
One-of-a-kind medical society and marine biology programs
Housing hundreds of works by internationally-celebrated artists, the School has its own art museum

Average SAT scores exceed the national average by more than 300 points
226 students recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Program in the last five years
57 National Merit Hispanic Scholars in the last five years
In the last five years, students have received college scholarship offers totaling over $147 million

Nationally-competitive debate program, highlighted by four state titles and nine top-10 finishes since 2000
Highly decorated robotics team that has won every award offered by FIRST, and captured the 2014 world championship
Robust stage & film program that features major productions, student-directed one acts, and a School-sponsored film festival
Award-winning student newspaper, The Roundup

113 team state titles in athletics since 1954
Texas-best 21 UIL 6A boys district titles in the last three years
First Texas high school to ever be invited to the USA Hockey National Championships (2013); earn a spot in the lacrosse national rankings (2013); and qualify for the Henley Royal Regatta (2016)
Strength of America award recipient four straight years by the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, and the first school in Texas to ever receive the honor (2013-16)

Working through non-profit organizations to minister to people in need (i.e., the poor, hungry, or homeless; the sick or injured; the handicapped; the elderly or infirmed; the intellectually/academically challenged), students must complete a minimum number of yearly service hours to graduate
Partnering with over 100 organizations, Jesuit Dallas is the largest high school community service department in Texas with over 100,000 hours of annual service
Social justice and cultural immersion trips to Alaska, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, Peru, British Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Guatemala, Spain, and China within the last five years
The first high school in the United States to sponsor an on-campus chapter of Jesuit Refugee Services (JRS), whose mission is focused on reaching out to Africans arriving in the U.S. and to those living in refugee camps in Kenya

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