Great High School Environments - (Dallas, Austin: home, top schools, colleges)

[DitsyD]

Originally Posted by GigiTer

Thx, yes I’m quickly finding out city does not equal school district! Could you please explain the 4 sub schools for Plano? Are the sub schools by academic level? Study pathway? I’ve not heard anyone mention this before. Thx!

Each of the three senior high schools in Plano are broken down into sub schools within that school. The four sub schools are by students' last names. A look at Plano West Senior High website shows that their four sub schools are Arctic Sub School (A-Fin), Lobos Sub School (Fio-Lee), Timber Sub School (Lef-Rom), and Tundra Sub School (Ron-Z).

Each sub school has its own assistant principal/behavior coordinator. So if the student enrollment is 2800 for the entire campus, then each sub school is looking after their 700 students, not the entire school.


https://www.pisd.edu/pwsh

[DitsyD]

Originally Posted by EcoDeb

To get an idea of each school district try visiting the District ISD (Independent School District) websites.

Here is the Denton County ISD


https://www.dentonisd.org

Kids in our neighborhood have done very well in Denton ISD as Texas state schools have a top 10% rule

College For All Texans: Automatic Admissions

There is also Collin County ISD and some cities, such as Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Lewisville, Little Elm
who have their own school district.

Generally (cityname)isd.org

GOOD LUCK in your school search!

That is the Denton ISD, NOT Denton COUNTY ISD. It is based in the City of Denton, not county wide.

There is NO COLLIN COUNTY ISD. Also, the CITIES DO NOT HAVE THEIR OWN SCHOOL DISTRICT. These are INDEPENDENT school districts. Often times the school district may reflect the name of the surrounding city, but not always. Such as there is a Lovejoy ISD in Collin County, but there is no city of Lovejoy. There is a Community ISD, but there is no City of Community.

While there is a 10% rule, students from smaller schools often struggle at the larger universities. And the University of Texas last year only accepted the top 6% because of the growing number of applicants.

[UnfairPark]

If you are looking for a more intimate environment yet rigorous academics, try good private schools. Its not available at any of the good public schools in DFW. However, don't underestimate ease of social and academic adjustment in colleges, learned at larger schools. Their graduates tend to do significantly better in their freshman year at larger and academically competitive universities.

[SouthernBelleInUtah]

Although my granddaughter does not drink or use drugs and neither do her friends, I would be a fool to say Lone Star has no students who do. An advantage of a big school is you can always find like-minded friends. The "big deal" last year was a runaway girl who went to meet her birth mother. Made the news, found safe, back to adoptive family, and changed schools. Lone Star draws from a fairly affluent area as do many of Frisco's other HS. Look at demographics on greatschools.net if you care.

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by EcoDeb

To get an idea of each school district try visiting the District ISD (Independent School District) websites.

Here is the Denton County ISD


https://www.dentonisd.org

Kids in our neighborhood have done very well in Denton ISD as Texas state schools have a top 10% rule

College For All Texans: Automatic Admissions

There is also Collin County ISD and some cities, such as Frisco, Plano, McKinney, Lewisville, Little Elm
who have their own school district.

Generally (cityname)isd.org

GOOD LUCK in your school search!

There is no such thing as Collin County ISD. And in Texas, cities do not have their own school districts. ISD’s share names with cities but are independent bodies and not affiliated in any way with city government. This is how it’s possible to live in Frisco and be zoned to Lewisville ISD, Little Elm ISD, or Frisco ISD depending on where one lives.

Really wish you would stop spreading false school information on so many threads.

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by DitsyD

That is the Denton ISD, NOT Denton COUNTY ISD. It is based in the City of Denton, not county wide.

There is NO COLLIN COUNTY ISD. Also, the CITIES DO NOT HAVE THEIR OWN SCHOOL DISTRICT. These are INDEPENDENT school districts. Often times the school district may reflect the name of the surrounding city, but not always. Such as there is a Lovejoy ISD in Collin County, but there is no city of Lovejoy. There is a Community ISD, but there is no City of Community.

While there is a 10% rule, students from smaller schools often struggle at the larger universities. And the University of Texas last year only accepted the top 6% because of the growing number of applicants.

You beat me to it. Thank you!

[UnfairPark]

Let’s not forget that overall acceptance rates at UT-Austin are 42%, Rice 11%, Baylor 40%, SMU 52%, UTD 62%, A&M 68%, UNT 73% and for Collin College you just have to be alive, transfers to most of these colleges are easier than going as freshman.

Don’t sweat too much, your kids will be fine. If they are good at athletics, it gives you a huge advantage in college admissions over better students as colleges want to win games more than they want to earn academic awards. Having winning teams is the best recruiting, marketing and fund raising tool.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by UnfairPark

If you are looking for a more intimate environment yet rigorous academics, try good private schools. Its not available at any of the good public schools in DFW. However, don't underestimate ease of social and academic adjustment in colleges, learned at larger schools. Their graduates tend to do significantly better in their freshman year at larger and academically competitive universities.

Are you saying kids from say really good public schools do better in college than kids from really good private schools? If that is your claim you are flatly wrong.

[EDS_]

Originally Posted by UnfairPark

Let’s not forget that overall acceptance rates at UT-Austin are 42%, Rice 11%, Baylor 40%, SMU 52%, UTD 62%, A&M 68%, UNT 73% and for Collin College you just have to be alive, transfers to most of these colleges are easier than going as freshman.

Don’t sweat too much, your kids will be fine. If they are good at athletics, it gives you a huge advantage in college admissions over better students as colleges want to win games more than they want to earn academic awards. Having winning teams is the best recruiting, marketing and fund raising tool.

Your logic just slays me vis a vis related topics.

The acceptance rates noted regarding public schools are of diminished value given the huge number of auto admits, UT Austin and A&M in particular, are forced to accept. Each school has the potential to have 100% acceptance from about 70% of its admitants.

At larger schools about 1% of students are student athletes. Your athletes get into over good to great students is a rubbish.

And you are straight up kidding yourself to imply that say The UT system does not care much about its Nobel Prize winners, Brinn Prizes Winners, Hughes Scholars, National Academy of Science winners, UT Austin has recently produced both a Fields Prize winner and a Shaw Prize winner in math etc. It cares enough to actually pay them or school them etc.

[UnfairPark]

Originally Posted by EDS_

Are you saying kids from say really good public schools do better in college than kids from really good private schools? If that is your claim you are flatly wrong.

No. I was comparing similar standard small vs large public schools, already mentioned edge offered by good privates.