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WILLIAMS H S
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 43 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 WILLIAMS H S
WILLIAMS H S operates as a reasonably sized 9-12 campus in PLANO, Texas, part of PLANO ISD. Current enrollment sits at 1,105 students spanning grades 9 through 10. Enrollment runs roughly 39% bigger than the state mean of about 796.
WILLIAMS H S is one of 73 schools operated by PLANO ISD, a district that works with 46,612 students overall.
On demographics, WILLIAMS H S lists that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 18% White, 17% Asian, 13% Black, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 16%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WILLIAMS H S has 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, WILLIAMS H S sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.9%; this one delivers 49.8%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Collin County put 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%. WILLIAMS H S is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
The closest other public school is MENDENHALL EL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), WILLIAMS H S ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.5%.
Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAMS H S has held roughly steady, going from 1,107 students in 2018 to 1,105 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 41% to 47% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.
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Collin County at a glance
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