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Highland Park High School

4220 Emerson Ave, Dallas, TX, 75205-1099 -

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Highland Park High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Dallas County, TX

Awards

Blue Ribbon School – Selected in 2007

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1974 students

% Male / % Female

50% / 50%

Total Classroom Teachers

121 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 518 students

Grade 10 - 528 students

Grade 11 - 472 students

Grade 12 - 456 students

This School

( TX ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:16

1:15

Students by Ethnicity

This School

( TX ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	2%	3%
% Hispanic	3%	47%
% Black	n/a	15%
% White	94%	35%
% Unknown	1 %	2%

Additional Student Information

This School

( TX ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

n/a

43%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

n/a

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

( TX ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Highland Park Independent School District

This School's Agency

( TX ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	9	3
Number of Students Managed	6,276 students	748 students
District Total Revenue	$122,602,000	$6,825,000
District Expenditure	$115,590,000	$6,637,000
District Revenue / Student	$19,535	$8,980
District Expenditure / Student	$18,418	$7,832
District Graduation Rates	99%	89%

Highland Park High School is located in University Park, Texas.
Highland Park is a part of the Highland Park Independent School District. It serves all of the city of University Park, most of the city of Highland Park, and portions of Dallas.
History: The school was established in 1922. Before 1922, Highland Park students who were ready for high school rode the trolley down Cole Avenue to Dallas to attend Bryan Street High School. When the new high school opened in January, 1922, pupils in eighth and ninth grade attended school at Armstrong Elementary School in Highland Park in half-day sessions until the building was ready for occupancy. They returned to Armstrong for lunch the remainder of that year. Those who had cars filled them to capacity for the "trip to lunch", and the other students walked.
The tenth grade was added in the fall of 1922, and the eleventh grade a year later. In 1924, thirty-three students became the first graduating class of the Highland Park Independent School District. (At that time, only eleven years of school were required prior to college admittance, and it was not until 1937 that the twelfth grade was added.) It was this first location on Highschool Street and Granada that became the middle school in 1937 when the current Highland Park High School building was erected on Emerson Avenue. The old building become the Highland Park Junior High School, which in later years was renamed Arch H. McCulloch Middle School. The school added the fifth grade and split into Highland Park Middle School for grades 7 and 8 and Arch H. McCulloch Intermediate School for 5th and 6th graders upon moving to a new facility after which the old building was demolished.
Recent events: In 1999, Dallas police issued 200 alcohol and curfew violations citations to Park Cities teens partying in a Deep Ellum warehouse. CNN picked up the story, and after it emerged that parents had rented the facility and contracted a bus company to safely deliver drunken high school students to and from the party, the Alliance on Underage Drinking (ALOUD) started the "Parents Who Host, Lose the Most" campaign, which informs parents about health, safety and legal ramifications of serving alcohol to underage individuals.
In late 2004, Simon & Schuster published young adult author Francine Pascal's The Ruling Class, a teen drama set at Highland Park High School. The school's newspaper The Bagpipe published community reactions to the book, and online reviews are mixed.
In late 2005, The Dallas Morning News published a story about the Friday of Highland Park's homecoming spirit week, on which several seniors dressed as thugs, maids and other caricatures of racial minorities.
In 2005 and 2006, Highland Park students received a multitude of state and national awards, and established several new records in Texas. The UIL Science Team, under the leadership of AP Chemistry teacher Wenzen Chuang, won state for the second time in the history of the high school. The Bagpipe newspaper received the Gold Crown Award for excellence in journalism in 2005 and later that year was one of 15 high schools in the country to win an NSPA Pacemaker. The same year, the school's yearbook, The Highlander, was chosen as a finalist for the NSPA Pacemaker award and Highland Park Television was chosen as a finalist for the NSPA Broadcast Pacemaker; Highland Park Television won the award the following year. On December 10, 2005, the football team won its first state championship since 1957, beating Marshall High School 59-0, the largest margin-of-victory ever in a UIL 11-man state championship football game. This also produced the first-ever undefeated team at Highland Park.
nformation: Highland Park was ranked as 12th in Newsweek's list of the top high schools in the United States, based on the Challenge Index by Jay Mathews. The Challenge Index ranks schools by the number of AP and IB tests taken by students at a school in 2002 divided by the number of graduating seniors. The school was also ranked the 16th most athletic high school in the nation by Sports Illustrated and is listed by the same publication as having the best sports program in the state of Texas.
Highland Park is often referred to as "The Bubble". According the The Dallas Morning News, as of 2005 the high school's ethnic makeup is about 94 percent white.
Notable alumni: David Browning, 1952 Olympic gold medalist in 3-meter springboard diving.
James Cronin, 1980 Nobel Prize winner in physics.
Angie Harmon, actress.
Bruce Hayes, 1984 Olympic gold medal winner in 4x200 freestyle relay.
Mike Heath, swimmer who won two gold medals and one silver at 1984 Olympics.
John Hinckley, Jr., would-be assassin of Ronald Reagan.
Clayton Kershaw, seventh overall pick in the 2006 MLB Draft.
Shaun Jordan, two-time Olympic gold medalist as part of 400-meter free-relay teams at the 1988 Olympics and the 1992 Olympics.
Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America.
Hank Kuehne, PGA golfer and 1998 United States Men's Amateur golf champion.
Kelli Kuehne, LPGA golfer and two-time United States Women's Amateur golf champion.
Bobby Layne, Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee.
Dorothy Malone, actress.
Jayne Mansfield, actress.
Stephanie March, actress.
James Noble, actor.
Richard Quick, Stanford University women's swim coach and 5-time U.S. Olympic coach.
Anthony Schlegel, linebacker for the New York Jets.
Matthew Stafford, quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs.
Doak Walker, 1948 Heisman Trophy winner and Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee.
Doug Wright, Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright.
Chris Young, professional baseball pitcher for the San Diego Padres.
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About This Zip Code (75205)

School Zip (75205)

(TX) State Average

Population (Approximate)

24,142 people

19,649,398 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

76%

23%

Population Average Age

33 years old

32.3 years old

Average Household size

2.2 persons

2.7 persons

Median Household Income

$73,153

$42,148

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

5.3 rooms

5.1 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

50 years old

33 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

52% / 48%

63% / 37%

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