Recent Round Rock Leader story covering the new High School:
http://www.rrleader.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=18611
Thoughts about PSIA and TAPS
Last weekend private school students from all across the state, each either a 1st or 2nd place winner of their district competition held earlier in the year, competed in the PSIA State Championship at TCU. It was wonderful to see smart kids from almost 100 different elementary schools competing, and exciting to see how much these kids have already learned.
Looking at the feeder schools to the new High School I was pleased to see that both Holy Family and St. Theresa middle schools did well. In middle school Science (both schools nearly swept their district meets) and Vocabulary (1, 2 and 5th place finish in State in 6th grade) they did particularly well. With the improvements in Math from the introduction of Accelerated Math, and already strong middle school science programs, it will help the new high school.
The perennial middle school science/math state champions, the Village School, located in Houston, has set a high bar but with the introduction of another Catholic High School, the middle schools are likely to improve as well.
St. Michael’s does well in TAPPS, the High School equivalent of PSIA and AIPL (the athletics league). St. Stephens and St. Andrews compete in the Southwest Preparatory Conference instead, and the two large Texas Jesuit High Schools compete in UIL. Looking to the future, it will be interesting to watch how St. Dominic Savio High School does in competitions and who its arch-rivals will be.
