However, the judge granted the petition for an independent school district on May 5, 1914, and HPISD was born. From 1909 until this time, children wishing to attend school had attended classes in a little red frame house operating under the name of 'Highland Park School' that had been moved to the 4700 block of Abbott by community leader Michael Costello and a group of citizens. On April 14, 1914, the newly incorporated town of Highland Park petitioned the Dallas County Judge to allow them to establish an independent school district. After his death on April 26, 1908, his widow and sons-in-law-Edgar Flippen and Hugh Prather-took over his work. In 1906, Armstrong purchased 1,400 acres of prairie land north of downtown Dallas. John Scarbrough Armstrong was one of the major founders of the town and contents of Highland Park because he owned significant portions of the land that would become the town. The District's number for TEA reporting purposes is 057911. The District is run by a school board consisting of seven elected, unpaid members. HPISD administers seven schools and seven campuses. The Dallas Independent School District surrounds HPISD on all sides. Those two portions are one that is north of Greenbrier Drive, south of Northwest Highway, east of the Dallas North Tollway, and west of Douglas Avenue and one that is west of Preston Road and north of Colgate Avenue. HPISD serves most of the town of Highland Park, all of the city of University Park, and two small portions of Dallas.

Highland Park Independent School District ( HPISD) is a public school district based in University Park, Texas, within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.

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