Highland Park is a town in central Dallas County. The population was 8,842 at the 2000 census. Located between Preston Road and U.S. Route 75 (North Central Expressway), four miles north of downtown Dallas. Highland Park is bordered on the south, east and west by Dallas and on the north by University Park. Highland Park http://www.hptx.org and University Park http://www.uptexas.org together comprise the Park Cities http://www.parkcitiesnews.com.Highland Park is also home to the Highland Park Village shopping center http://www.hpvillage.com.
Most of the city (areas east of Roland Avenue) is served by the Highland Park Independent School District. The HPISD portion is served by Highland Park High School in nearby University Park, which was ranked as the 2nd best high school in the United States by the Jay Mathews Challenge Index used by Newsweek. Bradfield Elementary is also a school in Highland Park, near Highland Park Village.
A portion of Highland Park (areas west of Roland Avenue) is zoned to Dallas Independent School District.
DISD schools that serve western Highland Park include Maple Lawn Elementary School, Rusk Middle School, and North Dallas High School.
The Highland Park Public Library is located at 4700 Drexel Drive in the Highland Park Town Hall.
Highland Park is the setting for the 2005 legal thriller The Color of Law by Mark Gimenez. Also many movies, books, and a soon-to-be-aired TV show have been written about life at Highland Park High School.