Richardson ISD’s Lake Highlands Junior High opened its doors in the fall of 1960, housing both the junior and senior high schools until 1965, when it began serving 7th-, 8th- and 9th-grade students for more than 30 years before becoming the Lake Highlands Freshmen Center in 1999.
The school will soon begin a new chapter as general contractor Cadence McShane Construction and architect Perkins+Will celebrated groundbreaking on the new Lake Highlands Middle School on Sept. 7. This transition to the middle school model will result in the first-ever 6th-through-8th-grade campus in Richardson ISD.
