HPISD overcrowding- change in Dallas homes that feed to HPISD (Highland Park: house, buying)

[GreyDay]

A bit off topic. Does anyone ever think HPISD would rezone to the town's actual boundaries and leave the annexed (not the right term) Dallas homes that feed into HPISD to decrease the total enrollment?

[Squirl]

No, I don't believe that would ever happen. More likely they would come up with a plan to address overcrowding. There are many school districts in Texas that do not follow actual town boundaries; I'd go as far as to say most of the DFW districts serve communities outside their named city boundaries.

[TurtleCreek80]

Nope, never. You'd see the homes in the Town of Highland Park that are west of the Tollroad and zoned to DISD added to HPISD before the 7000 blocks of HPISD are dumped. Neither is a likely scenario though.

[Big G]

Not without enough lawsuits from those landowners to bankrupt the entire district.

There is a procedure for areas to be moved from one district to another. However, it requires the approval of the board of trustees of both districts. More critically, it also requires:

The petition requesting detachment and annexation must:
(1) be signed by a majority of:
(A) the registered voters residing in the
territory to be detached and annexed, if the territory has
residents;

You think you can get 50% of those people to agree to leave HPISD for DISD? Dream on!

TC80 's vision is more likely. It would only require buying off the DISD board - not hard to imagine at all.

[GreyDay]

That'd have huge financial implications for those people I'd imagine.

[Big G]

Originally Posted by ganongrey

That'd have huge financial implications for those people I'd imagine.

That's why the school boards are not empowered to unilaterally redraw their boundaries. They have to obtain consent of a majority of the voters in the area they want to de-annex.

[jelf]

How do you like living in the Park Cities?

Originally Posted by ganongrey

A bit off topic. Does anyone ever think HPISD would rezone to the town's actual boundaries and leave the annexed (not the right term) Dallas homes that feed into HPISD to decrease the total enrollment?

[Dr. Jake Oil]

Originally Posted by jelf

How do you like living in the Park Cities?

I've been here two weeks so far, and I love it. Haven't seen ganon around though...

[loves2read]

why do you ask that about HP rezoning itself--
ARE those schools overcrowded--
I thought there were enough seniors living there that there was always a buffer

[GreyDay]

I've been studying everyday at the HP Village Starbucks...I'm pretty easy to pick out of the crowd...I'm not wearing an SMU t-shirt.

I jog on Preston (at daybreak these days if at all). Daughter swims at UP YMCA. Someone asked my wife if she shopped at Fiesta market.

UP is like, well like vaguely nothing. I wave to my neighbors and go to my house. I keep my grass green (getting harder and harder). My A/C bills look like first class tickets to L.A. and back. I sort of miss the lights of Uptown when I'm driving down barely lit streets around here. Neighbors kids still play basketball on the hoop in front of my house.

It's been uneventful, which is pretty much what I expected.

The rezoning question was sparked by something about alot of kids were pulled from private schools and put into HPISD. I then saw a house for 1.7 million being constructed in the annexed part of Dallas and wondered what it'd be worth if it were DISD.