SKYLINE CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER MAGNET​

Skyline was the first high school in the United States to offer a magnet school curriculum. In the mid-1960's, B. J. Stamps and other Dallas educators conceived the idea of a very large high school for the Dallas Independent School District that would offer career education in addition to a traditional high-school curriculum. Stamps emphasized continually that the facility he envisioned was "absolutely not going to be a vocational school for unsuccessful students" but rather a place where superior students could undertake studies in preparation for a variety of professions.

In December 1966, architectural plans for the school, whose working name was "Science-Technical Center," were approved by the Dallas School Board. By 1969, Stamps, who had been slated as the school's first principal, suggested the name "Skyline High School," inspired by the view of the Downtown Dallas skyline afforded from the school's upper floors, and in February 1970 the Skyline name was approved by the School Board.

Skyline serves grades 9 through 12 and is a part of the Dallas Independent School District.

To tour our amazing campus, please email our Executive Principal, Tom Brandt at: tbrandt@dallasisd.org. 

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