School ratings for DISD, Plano, Frisco, Allen, Richardson, McKinney (Dallas: best schools, college)

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by txgolfer130

What was lost within that discussion was that the "poor-performing" schools were w/in 75-200 pts. of the Plano schools depending on the school.
If you want to say that's poor performing, be my guest.

Would you rather your kid get in to Texas Tech / Baylor or Duke/ Vanderbilt? That's the upgrade in college SAT's a 150-200 point average will buy you. 200 points is a SIGNIFICANT difference in SAT land. Even 75 points- getting a 750 on the math section will make a student a LOT more competitive than a 675.

Or, viewed another way, the white students at every single non-Plano ISD CoCo schools (Allen, Frisco, McKinney) are ALL being out-scored on the SAT by white students at schools regularly dismissed as "inferior" to all CoCo schools on this forum-Lake Highlands, Richardson, JJ Pearce, and Woodrow. It's the minority students in CoCo that are scoring much closer to the whites in CoCo than the DISD minority students do.

[biafra4life]

Originally Posted by txgolfer130

What was lost within that discussion was that the "poor-performing" schools were w/in 75-200 pts. of the Plano schools depending on the school.
If you want to say that's poor performing, be my guest.

Actually the point made in that discussion was the fact that all of the CoCo schools again with the exception of PISD, were handily outperformed by the likes of Richardson and Garland schools, which are usually put down by some CoCo residents. Even though the CoCos tend to have less of the problems that Garland and Richardson have (higher levels of reduced lunch students, ESLs, etc) THAT is why the CoCos were considered poor performing.

[tallscot]

Originally Posted by pepper131

No lottery in DISD. Thank goodness!! You have to meet minimum grade requirements - TAG is no lower than 82nd percentile and SEM is no lower than 80th percentile. This self-selecting process makes the candidate pool very competitive. All eligible candidates are carefully screened individually - no lottery.

Thanks for the info!

So it's simply the kids with the best GPA and test scores get in?

Gifted and Talented has how many students? Around 243? And those kids are the ones with the best grades?

Thanks again.

[tallscot]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

Ah, so because your precious baby will have to "settle" for Plano West- one of the best public high schools in North Texas- you feel the need to bully the entire DISD via city-data forums. Yes, that makes SO much sense!

Where am I bullying anyone? I simply posted the TAKS scores.

If anyone is bullying, it would be the people posting personal insults and being so childish and overly defensive.

[tallscot]

Originally Posted by FarNorthDallas

On your list "Lake Dallas High" and "Lake Dallas Middle School" are not in DISD. They are in Lake Dallas ISD which is a suburban district north of Lewisville.

Plano has other middle schools such as Frankford Middle School and Murphy Middle School.
Richardson ISD has a lot more middle schools including Parkhill, Westwood, Lake Highlands, and Forest Meadow.

The magnet schools in Richardson are not selective, like they are in Dallas ISD. One is court ordered and the others are a way to manage overcrowding and demographics. There is no testing to get in and I have never ever heard of any one being denied. Most are just programs inside comprehensive schools. The vast majority of the student body in these schools are not in the magnet program. It's just a way to attract whites to schools otherwise losing whites. It is possible, by the way, to be denied from your neighborhood school due to it being full.

School ratings are going to drop drastically this year (the list is usually published August 1 for the prior year). The last couple of years many schools and districts benefitted from the Texas Projection Measure (oh don't get me started on that) but now that the TPM has gone away, ratings will really suffer. I think DISD and FWISD already warned about their huge forthcoming drops. Course it will be interesting to see what it does to the suburban school districts.

Thanks for the info!

[tallscot]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

because the new guy's kid didn't get into a DISD magnet and has to "settle" for Plano West. Dad has an inferiority complex about the Plano schools not so he started this lovely thread to put down DISD - the entire district- and prove how awesome PISD is (which wasn't really up for debate anyway....). You got all that?!

I think the person with an inferiority complex would the ones who react so obnoxiously and posts personal insults and says I should get the crap beat out of me, etc.

My kids are in elementary school, so we did not apply for a Dallas magnet. If we still live in Plano when they are older, we'll probably go to Plano West.

I posted the TAKS scores, via the greatschools.org rating system that is based on TAKS, of DISD, Richardson, Plano, Allen, McKinney. Nowhere did I say Plano has awesome schools. That's just you being defensive about DISD, obviously.

If posting those results is "putting down the entire district", oh well.

[tallscot]

Originally Posted by Ramona72

My kid didn't win a lottery to get into the magnet. He's just super smart and got in on merit. So we don't need to settle for Plano West, thank goodness.

I'm glad you are happy with your school!

[tallscot]

Originally Posted by Ramona72

And as long as we're looking at greatschools.org, just for grins and giggles see how Travis, Townview TAG and Townview SEM rank. What's that? 10 out of 10, higher than Plano West? Surely you jest.

That must be a great school. Thanks!

[Ramona72]

Originally Posted by tallscot

I'm glad you are happy with your school!

Oh, we are. It ranks higher than almost all of the Plano schools. Vibrant urban Dallas living plus the best free public education in the metroplex! Can't beat that.

[Ramona72]

Originally Posted by tallscot

That must be a great school. Thanks!

Actually, it's three separate schools. TAG and SEM were just ranked the top schools in the nation. Their list of awards and achievements is a mile long. Have people in Plano not heard of these schools?