Leading that faculty was another Ross recruit: John D. Doncaster, a former English instructor at Southern Methodist University.
In 1961, Rayzor, a Houston developer and prominent landowner in Denton, donated 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land to the school on University Drive (U.S. Route 380) west of town.
In the 1970s to the 1980s, Doncaster made trips to the Middle East to encourage parents there to send their children to boarding school in Denton.
At the time, Saudi Aramco (the Arabian American Oil Company) would pay to send employees' children overseas to school.
[6][7] A new preschool building opened its doors in August 2019, and the all-school "Smith Family Commons" was completed in September 2019.