{{Use American English|date=September 2025}} {{Infobox school | name = TMI Episcopal | image = TMI_Episcopal_Logo,_Revised_November_2017.png | image_size = 150px | motto = {{lang|la|Nihil Supra Mores}}<br>{{lang|la|Ducit qui Servit}} | location = 20955 West Tejas Trail | city = San Antonio | state = Texas | zipcode = 78257 | country = United States | coordinates = {{Coord|29.638292|-98.604333|type:edu|display=inline,title}} | type = Private Independent <br/> Co-educational <br/> Non-residential boarding College-Preparatory high school. | religious_affiliation = Episcopal Church in the United States of America | established = {{start date and age|1893}} | founder = James Steptoe Johnston | head_of_school = Rev. Scott J. Brown | faculty = 46 | ratio = 9:1 | ceeb = 446255 | song = For the Splendor of Creation | athletics = 19 Interscholastic Sports | mascot = Prima the Panther | nickname = Panthers | chair_label = Chairman of the Governors | chair = The Rt. Rev. David M. Reed | campus_size = {{Convert|80|acre|m2}} | campus_type = | enrollment = 640<ref name="CommunityImpact2023">{{Cite web |last=Schwennesen |first=Tricia |date=September 14, 2023 |title=Learn more about 14 North San Antonio private schools, 6 charter schools |url=https://communityimpact.com/san-antonio/north-san-antonio/education/2023/09/14/learn-more-about-14-north-san-antonio-private-schools-6-charter-schools/ |website=Community Impact |language=English}}</ref> | gender = Co-educational | avg_class_size = 15 students<ref name=bsr>{{cite web|title=TMI Episcopal Profile {{!}} San Antonio, Texas (TX)|url=http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/417|work=Boarding School Review - College-Prep & Jr. Boarding Schools {{!}} BoardingSchoolReview.com|publisher=Boarding School Review LLC|access-date=15 March 2013|archive-date=21 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151221143155/http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/417|url-status=dead}}</ref> | colors = {{scarf|{{cell|#000}}{{cell|#FFA500}}{{cell|#000}}{{cell|#FFA500}}{{cell|#000}}}} | fees = {{bulleted list|$26,312 (Middle School day students)| $29,477 (Upper School day students)| $53,330 (5-day boarding)| $58,490 (7-day boarding students, American or international) as of the 23-24 School Year}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tmi-sa.org/Page/Admission/Tuition|title=2023-2024 Tuition and Fees |work=tmi-sa.com|access-date=28 September 2023}}</ref> | accreditations = Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) and Southwestern Association of Episcopal Schools (SAES) | website = {{URL|www.tmi-sa.org}} }} '''TMI Episcopal''' is a private school in San Antonio. Previously known as '''Texas Military Institute''', TMI is a selective coeducational Episcopal college preparatory school with a military tradition in San Antonio, Texas for boarding and day students. It is the sole secondary school of the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas. Founded as '''West Texas School for Boys''', the school was later known as '''West Texas Military Academy''', and popularly nicknamed 'West Point on the Rio Grande'; it is not located on the Rio Grande.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.expressnews.com/150years/military-sports/article/TMI-produced-military-leaders-6110939.php|title=TMI produced military leaders|work=San Antonio Express-News|date=3 March 2015|access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref> General Douglas MacArthur attended the school.
==History== {{More sources section|date=June 2025}} TMI was founded in 1893 by James Steptoe Johnston, the second Bishop of West Texas in the Protestant Episcopal Church. Johnston was a native Mississippian of the planter class who had fought in twelve engagements in the Civil War, most with the Eleventh Mississippi Regiment.
Johnston's earliest name for his school in San Antonio was "The West Texas School for Boys," which was quickly changed to "West Texas Military Academy". In 1926, the name was changed to Texas Military Institute.
At the time of the school's foundation, San Antonio lay on the edge of the American frontier, with forts all along the high ground east of the Rio Grande. Johnston created a school with full-fledged military discipline, a combination unusual for Southern boarding schools.
The first rector and headmaster was Allan Lucien Burleson, a priest who had previously worked at the Shattuck School as headmaster between 1893 and 1900. The school was then largely funded by donations from wealthy residents of the eastern seaboard, many of whom had heard Johnston speak on the importance of academic and moral education for all young men.<ref>John A. Coulter II, "TMI Bugle Notes". Published Privately: 2002. Page 4</ref> When the school first opened, there were six teachers and twelve students.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.tmi-sa.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=479|title=TMI Faculty and Staff Directory Search|work=tmi-sa.org|access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref>
W. W. Bondurant changed the name to "Texas Military Institute" in 1926. In 1936, Bishop William Theodotus Capers sold TMI to Bondurant, who sold the school back to the Episcopal Church in 1952. In 1926, Bondurant had merged the Upper School of San Antonio Academy with TMI. The Book of Common Prayer continued to be used in daily chapel services.<ref>Coulter, Op. Cit.</ref>
Although Bishop Johnston had, in part, intended the school to train young men for seminaries in the Episcopal Church, the school has always been open to students of any religious faith.
The JROTC, or Corps of Cadets, has been optional for girls since their admission in 1972, and for boys since 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sachristianschools.org/accreditation.asp |title=Accreditation :: San Antonio Christian Schools |access-date=October 3, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101174647/http://sachristianschools.org/accreditation.asp |archive-date=November 1, 2013}}</ref>
==Campus== TMI has moved three times, each time relocating to the edge of an expanding city. The first campus was on Government Hill, next to Fort Sam Houston; the second was in Alamo Heights; and the current campus, dating from 1989, is in far northwest San Antonio, on the edge of the Texas Hill Country. The campus is modern in architecture and built almost entirely from local limestone.
The All Saints' Chapel is a 500-seat modern chapel, used for daily service of Morning Prayer and for Eucharistic services on the first Wednesday of every month as well as for quarterly school Evensongs, choral concerts and the annual baccalaureate Mass. The chapel, designed by alumnus Chris Carson of Ford, Powell & Carson, was recognized as one of the best religious buildings of 2009 by the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture, a knowledge community of the American Institute of Architects.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-07-25|title=NAES: News from Our Members{{!}}TMI Chapel, Alumnus Win Architecture Award|url=http://www.episcopalschools.org/newsMembers/index.cfm?fa=news&id=1752|access-date=2020-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725040556/http://www.episcopalschools.org/newsMembers/index.cfm?fa=news&id=1752|archive-date=2011-07-25}}</ref> The chapel organ is a two manual, 18 voice Schoenstein & Co. opus.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schoenstein.com/pdfs/161_TMI_The_Episcopal_School_of_Texas_San_Antonio_TX_3.pdf|title=161 TMI The Episcopal School of Texas San Antonio TX 3|work=schoenstein.com}}</ref>
==Corps of Cadets== [[File:TMIACUdigitalshulderpatch.jpg|thumb|TMI shoulder patch for the digital ACU pattern]] Approximately one third of TMI students are members of the Corps of Cadets. The high school leadership program is affiliated with the United States Army's Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The Panther Battalion has also been named as an Honor Unit with Distinction, the highest possible unit award for a school JROTC program, for over a decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.tmi-sa.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=269|title=TMI Faculty and Staff Directory Search|work=tmi-sa.org|access-date=16 April 2016}}</ref> Due to its high ranking, TMI cadets can apply for places at United States Service academies without the congressional recommendation usually required.
==Alumni==
===Academia and science===
*Light Townsend Cummins, historian (did not graduate) *Cresson Kearny, inventor *David Scott, astronaut *Lewis Sorley, historian
===The arts=== *Justin Blanchard, actor *Dan Blocker, actor and producer *Julian Onderdonk, painter
===Business and Ranching=== *James A. Baker Jr., attorney *Tom Frost, banker and philanthropist
===The Church=== *Robert R. Brown, 9th Bishop of Arkansas *Frank Juhan, Bishop of Florida
===Government and politics=== * Jeremy Bernard, gay rights activist<ref>{{cite web|last=Dunham|first=Richard|title=Obama names San Antonian as social secretary|url=http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Obama-names-San-Antonian-as-social-secretary-1031379.php|publisher=San Antonio Express News|access-date=2011-02-25}}</ref> * Henry E. Catto Jr., ambassador * Maury Maverick Jr., attorney and journalist * George Berham Parr, politician * Lamar S. Smith, congressman * Milton H. West, congressman * Bob Wheeler, member of Texas House of Representatives<ref>{{cite news | date = April 19, 2017 | title = Robert Wheeler | url = https://www.pleasantonexpress.com/articles/robert-wheeler/ | work = Pleasanton Express}}</ref> frame|right|Gen. MacArthur, class of 1897, as a student
===Military=== * John B. Coulter, general * Robert Gard, general * Ralph E. Haines Jr., general * Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers * Michael L. Oates, general *John L. Pierce, general
===Sport=== *Sherry Blakley, NASCAR driver *Ross Youngs, baseball player, National Baseball Hall of fame, Class of 1972<ref>https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/youngs-ross</ref> *Pato O'Ward IndyCar driver
==Notable faculty members== *Frederick Ahl – Latinist *Page Morris – Mathematician *Josef R. Sheetz – General *Ted Constanzo - Coach
==History of the School Name== * 1893 – West Texas Military Academy (WTMA) * 1926 – Texas Military Institute (WTMA merged with the upper school of San Antonio Academy and the school was renamed Texas Military Institute) * 2004 – TMI – The Episcopal School of Texas * 2017 – TMI Episcopal (adopted in November 2017)
== See also ==
* Marine Military Academy * Peacock Military Academy
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[http://www.tmi-sa.org TMI website] *[https://twitter.com/TMIEpiscopal TMI on Twitter] *[https://www.flickr.com/photos/tmiepiscopal TMI on Flickr] *[http://www.tmitube.org TMI Tube website where Residential Life students discuss their experience] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090809053308/http://www.tmitube.org/ |date=2009-08-09 }} *[https://www.youtube.com/tmiepiscopal TMI on YouTube] *[http://www.vimeo.com/tmi TMI on Vimeo]
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