Located just north of downtown Dallas, Highland Park High School is a public coeducational high school. It is part of the Highland Park Independent School District, serving a community predominantly comprised of college-educated professionals and business leaders in Dallas. The school serves all of University Park city, most of Highland Park town, and parts of Dallas.
With its advantageous location, modern facilities, and experienced teaching faculty, Highland Park has become a renowned school nurturing generations of outstanding students. It is an institution many parents aspire to enroll their children in for quality education. As an education icon of Dallas, Highland Park has contributed to fostering exceptional citizens for the community
The first building was the yellow brick schoolhouse of the Armstrong School which opened on October 12, 1915. The Armstrong School only served children through ninth grade. In 1922, the high school moved to its own separate building on Normandy Avenue following HPISD’s purchase of 11 lots in 1920. The tenth grade was added in the fall of 1922, and the eleventh grade a year later.
In 1924, 34 students became the first graduating class of the Highland Park Independent School District when they participated in the first-ever high school graduation ceremony of HPISD on June 2, 1924 (at that time, only eleven years of school were required prior to college admittance; it was not until 1937 that the twelfth grade was added).
These black and white photos were taken by LIFE photographer Cornell Capa in 1947. They show beautiful teenage girls’ styles of Highland Park High School from between the mid to the late of 1940s.
(Photos by Cornell Capa, via LIFE Photo Archive)
