The Lamplighter School[1] was founded in 1953 in a North Dallas farmhouse by Natalie Murray and Marieta "Sandy" Swain on what is now the Cooper Clinic campus.

In 2011 The Lamplighter School purchased the land from Hockaday for $12.5 million.

[4] The campus of The Lamplighter School was originally designed by O’Neil Ford in the late 1960s.

In the spring of 2014, The Lamplighter School undertook a new construction project that included an enlarged central landscape, and space for a new Innovation Lab and Teaching Barn.

The approximately 10,000 square foot Eastin Family Innovation Lab serves the school’s 450 Pre-K through 4th-grade student population.