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Dallas is a cosmopolitan city built dreams and determination. The city is diverse and offers culture, cuisine, shopping, and professional sports. With all the enrichments of city life at your finger tips this is a perfect location for the active family and individual.
Art & Culture
Night Life
Parks
Culinary Scene
Superb Shopping
Professional/College Sports
Dallas ISD, with more than 130,000 students, is the eighth largest school district in the nation. Dallas ISD has 13 TEA “Exemplary” Campuses and 67 TEA “Recognized” Campuses.
Students
- Booker T. Washington student was named 2006 Presidential Scholar in the Arts and received the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts top ARTS award of. Ten other Booker T. Washington High School students were honored in the ARTS Awards Program.
- Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center student was selected as semifinalist for the national 2006 Presidential Scholars program.
- Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center student was named a National Merit Scholarship winner in May 2006.
- Academy/Vanguard student won first place in the multimedia competition of the Texas Computer Education Association 2006 Student Technology Contests.
- Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center student was named 2006 Texas Youth of the Year by Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
- Moisés E. Molina High School student was selected as college scholarship finalist by the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation for his academic excellence and school and community service. .
- A sixth-grader at Arlington Park Community Learning Center, participated in the Math Number Sense competition, hosted by the Texas Math and Science Coaches Association.
Schools
- W.T. White High School was awarded the ING/Hispanic Magazine 2005 Schools
of Excellence Award for being among the best schools in the nation that meet
the educational needs of Hispanic students.
- The School for the Talented and Gifted and the School of Science and Engineering,
both at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center, and Booker T. Washington High School
for the Performing and Visual Arts were named in January 2005 “worldwide
leaders” by the College Board for the participation and performance
of their students on Advanced Placement tests taken in the 2003-2004 school
year.
- The Texas Education Agency has rated 71 district schools as exemplary and
recognized under the state’s new accountability system.
- Comedy Clubs
- Dance Venues
- Live Music
- Nightclubs
- Coffee Houses
- World Class Restaurants
- Shopping
- Galleria
- Uptown and West Village
- North Park Mall
- Number of Parks : 406
- Lakes : 17
- Bike & Jogging Trails: 61.6 miles
- Recreation Centers: 47
- Public Sports Fields: 638
- Public Tennis Courts: 263
- Public Swimming Pools : 21
- Family Aquatics Center : 1
- Public Golf Courses: 6
- Bar/Saloons
- Dallas Zoo
- Ripley’s Believe It or Not and Louis Tussaund’s Palace of Wax
- Dallas World Aquarium
- Speedzone Dallas
- The Dallas Art District
- West End Historic District
- Theatres
- Dallas Theatre Center
- Dallas Opera Theatre
- Theatre 3
- Museums
- African American Museum highlight the
lives of African Americans through historical and cultural representations.
This building is shaped as a cross and houses one of the largest collections
of folk art in the US.
- Age of Steam Railroad Museum showcases an extraordinary
collection of steam locomotives and equipment.
- Biblical Arts Center displays contemporary artwork as
well as ancient archeological artifacts.
- Conspiracy Museumchronicles
incidents from 1789 to 1940 such as the deaths of Martin Luther King, Jr.
to Robert Kennedy.
- Dallas Center for Contemporary Art features emerging
Texas talents.
- Dallas Firefighters Museum a glimpse of the past to
present from 1882 horse-drawn steam pumps to modern day equipment.
- Dallas Museum of Art shows an extensive collection of
everything from ancient to present. The museum’s holdings include
over 23,000 pieces.
- Dallas Museum of Natural History features natural exhibits
from Texas and its adjacent areas. The museum has over 280,000 specimens.
- Meadows Museum of Art extensive collection of Spanish
art.
- Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza examines the life,
times, death, and legacy of President John F. Kennedy.
- Pioneer Plaza Cattle Drive this bronze cattle drive is
located on the actual Shawnee Trail drive of the 1850s - and is the largest
bronze monument of its kind in the world.
- Outdoor Sculpture Tour see over 30 distinctive sculptures
on the sidewalks of Downtown. Along with pieces from the 19th century, there
are contemporary works
- Art Garden enjoy the Sculpture Garden at the
base of the statuesque Trammell Crow Center in Downtown.
More than 20 statues from the French masters, including Rodin, reside in
this peaceful setting with cascading waters and beautiful gardens.
- Mustangs Sculpture in Las Colinas 9 mustangs, bronze,
beautiful and larger-than-life, splash their way across a stream cut through
the stone and granite plaza of Williams Square.
- Morton H. Meyerson tour and discover the 4,535 pipes on
the Herman W. Lay Family Organ - this $1.36 million organ, crafted by C.B.
Fisk Inc., is truly an acoustical wonder!
- Dallas Central Library this public library includes one
of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence, printed in 1776
- also on permanent display, is William Shakespeare's First Folio of Comedies,
Histories & Tragedies. The library's Children Center is one of the largest
in the country.
Other Areas In Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex:
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Green Acres 
Waterford Oaks West 
Meadows of Longbranch 
Kensington Park 
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