PLANO WEST SENIOR H S

PLANO WEST SENIOR H S is a 9-12 campus of big scale in PLANO, Texas, overseen by PLANO ISD, works with 2,559 students in grades 11 through 12. That puts it 221% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

PLANO WEST SENIOR H S is one of 73 schools operated by PLANO ISD, a district that hosts 46,612 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PLANO WEST SENIOR H S lists that 29% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 28% White, 26% Hispanic, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, PLANO WEST SENIOR H S has 153 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting PLANO WEST SENIOR H S higher than the state norm the norm. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PLANO WEST SENIOR H S is in the bottom 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 64.3%; PLANO WEST SENIOR H S posts 36.3%, -28.1 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Collin County) reports that median household earnings sit near $121,600, 56% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Collin County's 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), PLANO WEST SENIOR H S is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: RENNER MIDDLE, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PLANO WEST SENIOR H S comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 63.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PLANO WEST SENIOR H S has declined 7%, going from 2,765 students in 2018 to 2,559 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 42% to 28% over that span.

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