RENNER MIDDLE

RENNER MIDDLE is a middle-grades school of large scale in PLANO, Texas, one of the schools within PLANO ISD, educateing 1,137 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so RENNER MIDDLE sits 77% above that benchmark.

Across the 73 schools in PLANO ISD (46,612 students total), RENNER MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, RENNER MIDDLE lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 26% White, 16% Asian, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.5:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RENNER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.6%, the actual is 56.7%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Collin County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which RENNER MIDDLE is one.

BRINKER EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RENNER MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 58.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 1,251 students in 2018 compared to 1,137 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 19% to 41% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.