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HERITAGE H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 17 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HERITAGE H S
HERITAGE H S is a sizable four-year high school in FRISCO, Texas, operated by FRISCO ISD. The school works with 1,996 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 151% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.
HERITAGE H S is one of 76 schools operated by FRISCO ISD, a district that serves 65,289 students overall.
On demographics, HERITAGE H S reports that the largest single group is Asian at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 26% White, 15% Black, 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 138 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Collin County's rate of about 30%.
With demographic context factored in, HERITAGE H S performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.0%, the actual is 74.1%, a residual of +6.2 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Collin County indicate median household income runs about $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which HERITAGE H S is one.
LISCANO EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HERITAGE H S. On composite proficiency, HERITAGE H S comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a residential area.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HERITAGE H S has declined 9%, going from 2,188 students in 2018 to 1,996 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 23% to 44% across the same window.
On allk12, members of the HERITAGE H S community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Collin County at a glance
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