Highland Park High School is Expanding

High School Principal: We Need More Land

Highland Park High School principal Walter Kelly navigates a crowd after a buzzer-beating win in the 2012 girls basketball playoffs. These days, Kelly is dealing with much bigger crowds. (Photo: Chris McGathey)

If you own land near Highland Park High School, Walter Kelly would love to take it off your hands.
Kelly, the HPHS principal, and Johnny Ringo, the Highland Park ISD athletic director, talked to the Board of Trustees last night about the problems they face at the high school due to the growing student population. For example, to fully satisfy the requests they have for parking from current students and faculty, they’d need 300 additional spaces right now. And that doesn’t take into account the additional growth that is expected.
Kelly and Ringo presented a list of options and a list of requests to the trustees, and both lists included buying land near the high school.
“It’s the most ideal [option] from my standpoint,” Kelly said. “But it’s the least ideal from a political standpoint, and probably from a financial one.”

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