- Acceptance Rate: Competitive
- Location: Irving, TX
- Enrollment: 343
- School Type: Boys' day school
- Grades: 5-12
- Church Affiliation: Roman Catholic
- Number of faculty: 47
- Tuition: $12,600 - 15,100
- Percentage of students receiving financial aid: 20%
- Admissions Deadline: Rolling
- Website: Cistercian Prep
Comments: Cistercian Preparatory School opened in 1962 with 50 boys in grades 4 and 5. Today enrollment totals about 345 students in grades 5-12 with 1093 alumni.
The school graduated its first class in 1970. Its student to faculty ratio is 8:1, with 70% of faculty holding advanced degrees and 24% holding a PhD or an equivalent degree.
The student body is culturally and economically diverse, historically representing around 25 different feeder schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. 24% of the student body is of a race or ethnicity other than Caucasian. One in five families receives some form of financial aid.
Other facts worth a mention: 29 AP courses and a list of fine colleges to which Prep graduates matriculate underscore the serious academics which you can expect at Prep. If you are looking for a Roman Catholic boys' school in the Dallas area, this school needs to be on your list.