Plano High School

Located at 704 W Abe St, in Plano, Illinois, Plano High School is a mid-tier senior high that enrolls 757 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Plano CUSD 88.

Plano CUSD 88 runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,398 students. Plano High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Plano High School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 31% White, 10% Black, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 50% of students at Plano High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Kendall County (around 32%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Plano High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.7%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of -13.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kendall County indicate median household income runs about $111,601, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Kendall County runs 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,773 students), of which Plano High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: P H Miller Elem School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Plano High School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

Plano High School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Plano High School has climbed 8%, going from 700 students in 2018 to 757 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 38% to 31% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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