The Highland Park ISD board of trustees June 16 greenlit the district’s proposed 2026-2027 budget.
The 2026-2027 proposed budget projects nearly $86 million in expenditures and nearly $85 million in revenues in the district’s general fund.
At the end of the 2026-2027 school year, district officials said the general fund balance is projected to be just under $45 million.
The district’s projected debt service budget includes just under $41 million in revenue and just under $40,800,000 in expenditures.
The school board is set to approve the 2026-27 tax rate in August after receiving the certified taxable value from the Dallas County Appraisal District.
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Rachel Snyder, managing editor at People Newspapers, first joined the staff in 2019. She's covered everything from Dallas and University Park municipal government to business. Rachel began her journalism career at the daily newspaper The Express Star in Chickasha, Okla. She went on to work for the daily Duncan Banner in Duncan, Okla. the weekly Sand Springs Leader, and WFAA-TV in Dallas. She’s a fan of puns and community journalism, not necessarily in that order.
