Academic News
2025
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30 Students Named National Merit Commended Scholars
Read MoreHockaday proudly recognizes the 30 students from the Class of 2026 who have been selected as Commended Students in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship program. -
19 Students Named National Merit Semifinalists
The Hockaday School proudly recognizes 19 students who will advance as semifinalists in the 71st annual National Merit Scholarship Program, a national academic competition for recognition and scholarship that began in 1955.Read More -
SMU Professor Presents to Lower School
Candace Walkington, an Annette and Harold Simmons Centennial Chair, Professor, in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Southern Methodist University, presented to our Lower School faculty about teaching Hockaday's new math curriculum, and data around the four outcomes in Lower School: wonder, agency, collaboration, and resilience!Read More -
Students Intern at Local Magazine
This summer, 13 Hockaday students joined us in the Brighter office to learn editorial, design, and business skills. They learned firsthand what it is like to create a publication, creating their own "illuminate" guide, a young woman’s guide to cancer awareness, prevention, and early detection.Read More -
Student Wins State Fair Art Competition
Read MoreCongratulations to Anya H. (Class of 2029) for winning first place in the 2025 State Fair of Texas Art Competition! -
Teacher Partners with Smithsonian
Upper School teacher Kristen Blevins spoke at the Smithsonian National Education Summit in Washington D.C. this summer in collaboration with an ongoing partnership she has developed with the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.Read More -
Student Spends Summer Studying Radiation Therapy
This summer, Haley M. (Class of 2027) completed a research internship at UT Southwestern Medical Center, where she contributed to clinical trials in radiation oncology.Read More -
Students Use Coding Skills For Good
This summer, Lily Fagelman (Class of 2026) and Anusha Chowdhary (Class of 2027) worked together to create a database that will be used by social impact partner United to Learn!Read More -
Meet Our New Faculty and Staff
Please join us in welcoming Hockaday’s newest faculty and staff members.Read More -
Madison Shelby ’21 Named Fulbright Award Recipient
Read MoreMadison Shelby ‘21, a 2025 cum laude graduate of High Point University, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2025. -
Student Wins Oratory Category in Great Debate Tournament for the National Hispanic Institute
Read MoreGrecia Tarin (Class of 2028) placed first in the Oratory category at the national competition. -
Teachers Honored with Inaugural Award for Innovative Teaching and Instruction
Emily Dutcher, Mackenzie Miller '03, and Karen Sanchez received the new award.Read More -
Historic Achievement for French Students
Read MoreOn March 28, 2025, 16 Eighth Grade students participated in the National French Contest (Le Grand Concours), a prestigious annual competition for French language learners across the United States. -
Fourth Grade CCI
Fourth Graders presented their culminating CCI projects to Lower School students this week!Read More -
DECA Success
Seven Hockaday students competed at DECA’s ICDC (an international business competition) in Orlando, FL, last week.Read More -
Student Pitch Competition Winners
Last week, the Biology, Impact, and the Zoo class, a Social Impact class taught by Brandi Finazzo and Laura Day, held the seventh annual BIZ Shark Tank Pitch Contest.Read More -
Students Inducted into Cum Laude
Congratulations to the newest members of Hockaday’s Chapter of Cum Laude!Read More -
Middle School Poets Recognized in Statewide Contest
Several Fifth Grade students were recently recognized in the annual Poetry Society of Texas Student Contest.Read More -
Hockaday Welcomes Allman Fellows
This week, Hockaday welcomed the 2024–25 Allman Fellows, Dr. Twila Moon, Deputy Lead Scientist and Science Communication Liaison at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, and Dr. Heïdi Sevestre, Glaciologist, Speaker, and Author, to campus.Read More -
Fourth Grade Snap Circuits
Read MoreVolunteers from High Tech High Heels worked on snap circuits with Fourth Grade students yesterday! -
Upper School Students Compete in JCL
Latin students competed in the Junior Classical League competition in March. Congratulations to all our language students!Read More -
Building BioLabs
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Lower School Dream Lab
The Lower School Dream Lab has become a hub of creativity, collaboration, and hands-on learning.Read More -
Middle School Students Excel in Language Competitions
Latin students competed in the Junior Classical League Area Competition this month, and Spanish students participated in the Spanish Competition hosted by Good Shepherd Episcopal School.Read More -
The Power of Synthesis
Thinking beyond boundaries at Hockaday.Read More -
Hockaday Celebrates Engineering Week
Lower School welcomed some amazing women for Engineer Week!Read More -
Math Counts Competition
12 Middle School students competed in the Math Counts competition in February.Read More -
Middle School Robotics
Three Middle School Robotics teams competed in the FIRST LEGO League Challenge Division, where they worked together starting in August to develop both an autonomous LEGO robot design that could earn points in up to 15 different missions and an independent innovation project that solves a real-world problem of their choice.Read More -
Robotics Team Wins INSPIRE award
Congratulations to the Upper School Robotics Team, the Hockabots, which competed in the FIRST Robotics FTC Semi-Area Championship held at Woodrow Wilson High School.Read More -
Refurbishing Technology
Members of the Computer Science Club worked with our Tech department to learn how to refurbish gently used technology.Read More -
Harvard Model UN
Last week, 20 delegates from Hockaday’s Model UN team attended the Harvard Model UN Conference in Boston.Read More -
Upper School Students Honored at Math Competition
Hockaday students competed in the Metroplex Mathematics Tournament against other private and public high schools throughout DFW in January.Read More -
First Grade Researches Arctic Animals
As part of their social impact theme of animals, First Grade students have been working on their arctic animal project!Read More -
Brittani Hite '05 Works With Middle School Students
Fifth Grade students have been working with Texas Trees Foundation on a special project to plant 3,500 trees in South Dallas through the South Dallas Greening Initiative!Read More -
Hockaday Computer Science Program Honored
Hockaday was one of 237 schools to earn the College Board AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science.Read More -
Neuroscience Students Create "Pop Up" Brain Fair
Form IV Neuroscience students partnered with Foster Elementary’s after-school program to teach elementary students about the brain.Read More -
Third Grade and Food Insecurity
Third Graders were visited by Susan Hoffman of United Way yesterday, who came by to discuss food insecurity in Dallas.Read More -
Finance Expert Visits Investment Club
Debra Tagg, president of BFS Advisory Group and a member of Hockaday’s Investment Committee, spoke with members of the Upper School Investment Club this week about her industry.Read More -
Student Named Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar
Congratulations to Aimee Guo (Class of 2025) who was named a Regeneron Science Talent Search scholar, one of only 300 in the nation!Read More
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Within the private school community, The Hockaday School is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls from grades PK–12 located in Dallas, Texas. Students realize their limitless potential through challenging academic curricula, arts, athletics, and extracurricular programs so that they are inspired to lead lives of purpose and impact.
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The Hockaday School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, creed, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law in the administration of its educational, admissions, financial aid, athletic, and other policies and programs.