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Seniors Named as Commended students in Preliminary National Merit Scholar Qualifications

October 16, 2020

  Brook Hill is proud to announce that Mengxian (Annabeth) Gao, Nicole Tng, Timothy Humphries, and Soowan (Olivia) Kim have been named Commended students for their performance on the 2019 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.   Approximately 34,000 Commended Students throughout the nation are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise, as they are among the top 50,000 scorers of more […]

Martin Family

September 24, 2020

The Martin’s hail from Tennessee where they explored a variety of education options for their family before ultimately deciding that boarding school, and particularly Brook Hill, was the right choice for their family. The Martin’s were not only interested in an academically rigorous environment for their son Ethan, but ultimately a place where he could […]

Faculty Highlight: Wes English

September 24, 2020

Wes English teaches 9th grade Humanities and English Language Learning 1 (ELL 1) at Brook Hill. Mr. English is passionate about teaching students the truth. We got to talk with him about why he loves teaching and how he’s even teaching students virtually from across the globe.     Mr. English, can you tell us […]

Students Named to Texas Bank & Trust Student Board of Directors

September 23, 2020

  Congratulations to 14 of our seniors who were named to the Texas Bank & Trust 2020-2021 Student Board of Directors!   Seniors Mattie Cheatham, Chandler Fletcher, Landry Graves, Anna Hardee, Joseph Johnson, Olivia Kim, Emily Livesay, Maggie Manning, Tami Olujobi, Carson Richards, Nicole Tng, Khue Tran, Anna Zapolska, and Zahkar Zapolskyy will join with […]

Welcome to Senior Seminar

September 23, 2020

A letter from our Academic College Counselors, Ashley Bouwer and Celia Tucker…       Questions, answers, writers block, personal stories, remember activities from 9th, 10th, and 11th grade (and having to write them down in detail), realizing how important senior year is, realizing that GPA matters, learning that “optional” on a college application means […]

Remembering 9/11

September 11, 2020

Students in Mr. Dement’s Government class visited the American Freedom Museum this week to remember 9/11. After watching footage in the museum, students went outside to the new memorial where Mr. Dement retold the story of that day and challenged students to choose someone who lost their life during the attack and to pray for […]

First Day of School

August 21, 2020

The first day of school has finally arrived! Can we get a “Hallelujah!”? We are so grateful to be starting back and to have the Brook Hill Family together again. This year, we’re learning to act with love at the Lower School. Our school verse for the year is: “Let all that you do be […]

Computer Science Solves Problems as Team

August 21, 2020

Sometimes learning looks like diving headfirst into a textbook, and other times it looks like using your imagination to build a tower out of paper. Innovation fosters a different kind of learning, one that teaches kids how to be flexible, adapt to failures, and step into the mindset of being resilient. Our computer science class […]

NEW ATHLETIC TRAINING & MULTI-PURPOSE FACILITY

July 16, 2020

Brook Hill is excited to announce the construction of new Athletic Training and Multi-Purpose Facility   Construction on the new Athletic Training & Multi-Purpose Facility began this past week. The new facility will feature a 50×30 yard covered training facility that will benefit all sports, male & female, as well as a 9,500 square foot […]

Brook Hill Welcomes a New Lower School Dyslexia Specialist

May 21, 2020

We are excited to announce that Martha Waggonner is joining The Brook Hill School as our Lower School Dyslexia Specialist.   Mrs. Waggonner not only brings over 27  years of experience in working with dyslexia, but she also has a strong passion for working with and advocating for students. She believes in making the learning […]

ABBY BAKER WINS IN TEXAS PSIA PUBLISHING CONTEST

May 15, 2020

Congratulations to third-grader Abby Baker who was recently named as a winner in a state-wide PSIA writing contest!   Abby’s work will be included in the 2020-2022 edition of the PSIA Ready Writing and Creative Writing Handbook for Elementary & Middle Schools that is currently being compiled. We are so proud of you Abby and hope […]

CELEBRATING OUR SENIORS

April 24, 2020

As of this week, the Class of 2020 has been accepted to 104 different universities and has been awarded $3,865,352 in scholarships!   We are so proud of our seniors and as their career here at Brook Hill winds down over the coming weeks, we are taking every opportunity we can to celebrate them! Today […]