Plano Independent School District serves mainly Plano city but it also takes students from some areas of Dallas , Richardson , Allen , Murphy , and Parker .
Plano Independent School District is lLed by Superintendent of Schools Dr. Douglas Otto , Plano Independent School District serves 53,000 students and employs 6,500 faculty members spread across 65 schools and 3 special and early education centers. Plano is renowned for its high educational standards. Plano has a massive operating budget of 479 million U.S. dollars . The school district is known throughout the country for its high standards of academic excellence.
Plano ISD has an educational structure that slightly departs from the typical U.S. educational pattern . Primary education in PISD, following the typical U.S. structure, consists of 42 elementary schools that serve the first through fifth grades. However, PISD's system of secondary education consists of 12 middle schools that serve the sixth through eighth grades, 5 'high schools' that serve the ninth and tenth grades, and 3 'senior high schools' that serve the eleventh and twelfth grades. The 'high school' and 'senior high school' system is a departure from the standard U.S. high school that serves the ninth through twelfth grades.
All three of Plano Independent School District senior high schools were recently listed in the top 500 of Newsweek 's list of 1000 top high schools in America which ranked schools using the ratio of Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate tests taken by all students in 2004 to the number of graduating seniors. Plano Independent School District schools reportedly administer more Advanced Placement tests than any other school district west of the Mississippi River .
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