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August 22, 2009

Highland Park trustees toured the ongoing school construction at several campuses Friday. The extensive renovations and building projects throughout the district will remain in progress as students arrive for the first day of school on Monday. Most of the projects – at four elementary schools, a middle school campus and Highland Park High School – are scheduled to be completed during the school year, with the last of the work at the Highland Park Middle/McCulloch Intermediate School campus to be completed by the end of next summer. The renovations and building projects are paid for by a voter-approved $75.4 million school bond. Highland Park trustees toured the ongoing school construction at several campuses Friday.

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Highland Park High School is listed this month among the top high schools in the nation by Newsweek magazine. Newsweek includes HPHS, ranked number 23, for its students’ participation on Advanced Placement exams.

This is the sixth year Highland Park High School has made Newsweek’s “Top 100″ listing.  HPHS is the highest ranked comprehensive high school in Texas, outscored only by magnet and charter campuses.

Newsweek’s article, “America’s Best High Schools,” compiled a listing of 1,500 high schools, with public schools ranked according to a ratio that divides the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate or Cambridge tests taken schoolwide by the number of graduating seniors in the school.

Using that ratio, Highland Park High School scored a 6.108, up from 6.035 in 2008, and 5.727 in 2007.

“We are excited to be named to Newsweek’s list of the best high schools in America once again,” said HPHS Principal Patrick Cates. “This recognition validates the work our students and teachers do every year in our Advanced Placement program.  Our program is one of the largest in the country, and we believe that it prepares students for success in any college or university anywhere.  This ranking brings honor to our school, our school district, and our communities.”

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2 students get honorable mention in Advanced Placement exhibition

Steele Burrow may not be planning on focusing on art in college, but his high school work has already proven to be noteworthy.Burrow and fellow Episcopal School of Dallas senior Natalie Maxted both earned honorable mentions Monday in the 11th annual “Young Masters” exhibition, an event honoring Dallas-area Advanced Placement art students. Burrow said just making it into the field was an accomplishment.

“It’s a big honor,” he said. “Students from all across Dallas submit their single best piece of art.”

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Image on right: Natalie Maxted’s Autumn which earned honorable mention.

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A Marsh Middle School student takes a photo of three Girl Talk mentors: (from left) Tessie Diaz-Arrastia, Claire Fontaine, and Mallorie Raybon.

High school youths help sixth-graders tackle mature problems

By Michael Hines
Staff Writer

While Marsh Middle School is fairly close to Ursuline and Hockaday, its sixth-graders might as well have been living in a different world compared to Claire Fontaine.

Claire is one of several Ursuline and Hockaday students who meet with Marsh sixth-graders as part of Girl Talk, a national mentoring program. Claire, who attends Ursuline, and Lauren Callahan of Hockaday founded Dallas’ first Girl Talk chapter last fall, and the weekly events have included some eye-opening discussions for both 17-year-olds.

“It’s just down the road, but it’s a totally different perspective,” Claire said. “The things I was going through in sixth grade was just boy problems or a friend had been mean to me. These girls are dealing with things that are so mature.”

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