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Plano Independent School District

Plano Independent School District general information and student academic performance data at both district and campus levels are provided on this page. Also presented on this page are descriptions, pictures and maps of moderately priced Plano ISD homes that currently are for sale.

Plano ISD academic profile

DFW school districts rank: 6

Academic performance score: 10

Texas Education Agency overall performance grade: A

In addition to its 2019 top-tier DFW school districts ranking, Plano Independent School District also is recognized as one of the top school districts in Texas. The ranking methodology used for both the state and metropolitan area best school districts analyses presented on this best DFW school districts rankings page.

The academic performance score provides a quick way to determine approximately where a school district's or school's student academic performance ranks among the performance of students in other Texas districts and schools. School districts and campuses with combined State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) and college readiness indexes ranked in the top ten percent of Texas school districts and schools are awarded an academic performance score of 10, districts and schools with combined academic performance indexes in the ninth decile receive a score of 9, and so on.

Plano ISD was joined by 11.9 percent of all Texas K-12 school districts in being recognized by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) with an overall performance grade of A, the top grade awarded in 2018 to school districts.

Plano Independent School District operates forty-four elementary schools, thirteen middle schools, and ten high schools. These sixty-seven schools are attended by approximately 53,700 students who live in Plano, Frisco, Dallas, Murphy, Parker and Richardson.

Plano ISD's 2018 TEA STAAR component scaled score is 91. As is further explained in the Texas Education Agency 2018 Accountability Manual, the STAAR scaled score is calculated by first adding equal weightings of the percentage of assessments on which students’ performance mastered grade level, met grade level and approached grade level, dividing the sum by 3 and rounding it to the nearest whole percentage. This raw STAAR raw component score is then adjusted or “scaled” by using a conversion table to align accountability letter grades and scores of Texas public school districts and campuses.

As depicted in the 2018 TEA STAARS scores graph (right) and shown in the Plano ISD schools table (below), thirty-six Plano ISD campuses attained TEA STAAR scaled scores between 90 and 100, nine campuses STAAR scores were between 80 and 89, twelve had scores between 70 and 79, and four Plano ISD campuses had STAAR scaled scores between 60 and 69.

Students living in the north Dallas suburbs and north Dallas area profiled on this website attend twenty-six Plano ISD schools. Twenty of these campuses have a 2018 TEA STAAR scaled score between 90 and 100, three between 80 and 89, one between 70 and 79, and the STAAR scaled score of one campus is between 60 and 69. The 2018 accountability rating for all Plano ISD schools is Met Standard, the TEA's highest campus rating. Additional academic performance, student enrollment, teacher staffing and other information about many of these schools is available by clicking on the campus names.

Plano ISD schools

					serves students living in
	grade range	academic performance score	scaled STAAR score	TEA accountability rating	west Plano	north central Plano	north Dallas
Aldridge Elementary School	K-5	9	91	Met Standard
Andrews Elementary School	K-5	10	95	Met Standard		✓
Armstrong Middle School	6-8	5	75	Met Standard
Barksdale Elementary School	K-5	10	93	Met Standard	✓
Barron Elementary School	K-5	4	72	Met Standard
Bethany Elementary School	K-5	9	90	Met Standard		✓
Beverly Elementary School	K-5	10	96	Met Standard
Boggess Elementary School	K-5	10	92	Met Standard
Bowman Middle School	6-8	6	77	Met Standard
Brinker Elementary School	K-5	10	92	Met Standard	✓
Carlisle Elementary School	K-5	10	92	Met Standard		✓
Carpenter Middle School	6-8	7	79	Met Standard
Centennial Elementary School	K-5	10	94	Met Standard	✓
Christie Elementary School	PK-5	5	73	Met Standard
Clark High School	9-10	10	91	Met Standard		✓
Daffron Elementary School	K-5	9	90	Met Standard
Davis Elementary School	K-5	6	77	Met Standard
Dooley Elementary School	K-5	6	77	Met Standard
Forman Elementary School	K-5	3	70	Met Standard
Frankford Middle School	6-8	8	85	Met Standard	✓		✓
Gulledge Elementary School	K-5	10	93	Met Standard		✓
Haggar Elementary School	K-5	8	85	Met Standard			✓
Haggard Middle School	6-8	9	91	Met Standard
Harrington Elementary School	K-5	10	92	Met Standard
Haun Elementary School	K-5	10	93	Met Standard		✓
Hedgcoxe Elementary School	K-5	10	92	Met Standard
Hendrick Middle School	6-8	9	89	Met Standard
Hickey Elementary School	K-5	8	82	Met Standard
Hightower Elementary School	K-5	10	93	Met Standard
Huffman Elementary School	PK-5	2	62	Met Standard	✓
Hughston Elementary School	K-5	9	91	Met Standard
Hunt Elementary School	K-5	10	94	Met Standard
Jackson Elementary School	PK-5	6	77	Met Standard			✓
Jasper High School	9-10	10	94	Met Standard		✓
Mathews Elementary School	K-5	10	95	Met Standard		✓
McCall Elementary School	K-5	9	91	Met Standard
McMillen High School	9-10	10	90	Met Standard
Meadows Elementary School	K-5	2	65	Met Standard
Memorial Elementary School	PK-5	2	60	Met Standard
Mendenhall Elementary School	PK-5	2	65	Met Standard
Miller Elementary School	K-5	10	92	Met Standard
Mitchell Elementary School	K-5	8	83	Met Standard			✓
Murphy Middle School	6-8	10	94	Met Standard
Otto Middle School	6-8	10	92	Met Standard
Plano East Senior High School	9-12	10	92	Met Standard
Plano ISD Academy High School	9-12	10	93	Met Standard	✓	✓	✓
Plano Senior High School	9-12	10	93	Met Standard		✓
Plano West Senior High School	9-12	10	94	Met Standard	✓	✓	✓
Rasor Elementary School	K-5	7	80	Met Standard
Renner Middle School	6-8	9	91	Met Standard	✓
Rice Middle School	6-8	10	96	Met Standard		✓
Robinson Middle School	6-8	10	93	Met Standard		✓
Saigling Elementary School	K-5	9	91	Met Standard
Schell Elementary School	K-5	10	92	Met Standard
Schimelpfenig Middle School	6-8	10	94	Met Standard		✓
Shepard Elementary School	K-5	9	90	Met Standard
Shepton High School	9-10	10	88	Met Standard	✓	✓	✓
Sigler Elementary School	K-5	5	74	Met Standard
Skaggs Elementary School	K-5	10	95	Met Standard		✓
Stinson Elementary School	K-5	10	93	Met Standard
Thomas Elementary School	PK-5	4	72	Met Standard
Vines High School	9-10	10	90	Met Standard
Weatherford Elementary School	K-5	5	72	Met Standard
Wells Elementary School	K-5	9	89	Met Standard
Williams High School	9-10	10	80	Met Standard
Wilson Middle School	6-8	8	83	Met Standard
Wyatt Elementary School	K-5	10	95	Met Standard		✓

 

Plano Senior High School / Clark High School / Vines High School and Plano West Senior High School / Jasper High School / Shepton High School are ranked among the 25 best open enrollment public high schools in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Click on this 2018 best Dallas Fort Worth public high schools link for complete rankings and analysis methodology. Similar analyses and rankings for Dallas area middle and elementary schools are available on these DFW best middle schools and DFW best elementary schools pages.

For information about other public schools attended by north Dallas and west Plano students click on these north Dallas schools and west Plano schools links.

Sources: Plano Independent School District and Texas Education Agency

Moderately priced homes in Plano ISD

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