Looking for Frisco housing advice (high school, accepted, news)

[HP48G]

Originally Posted by thenewtexan

Interesting. I thought Plano was all built out, and people were moving to Frisco to get more bang for their buck since land is still available.

Land is available but it's not cheap to develop. At your price point it's usually big boxy houses with very tiny yards.

[NoClueWho]

Originally Posted by Raiders89452

I looked around west Frisco and then moved over to Craigs Ranch area near Mckinney. We're many new construction and spec houses available within our budget! Looking more like Frisco is a no-go for us unless we settle for a house that we may not be happy with.

Smart choice. Frisco has gotten WAY too expensive for most of the houses it offers, IMO.

Also, if you google the local news, Frisco ISD is beginning to have some very noticable issues that could affect students for years to come. Just because a school district is in a pricey suburb doesn't make it an automatically excellent or faultless school district.

[UnfairPark]

Their college matriculations for 2017 sure are shocking. Only few selective college acceptances to Stanford, Rice and Cornell. Not a single admission to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, MIT, Williams College, Duke, Pomona etc.

Frisco ISD Honors Top Ten Graduates and Their Selected Teachers

[TeamLynn]

Frisco is a great place to live....great schools for the most part. This can be tricky though as there are other school districts in Frisco and Frisco ISD covers other cities....so city borders and school boundaries are not the same.

You do get more bang for the buck in Little Elm with Frisco ISD, but sometimes these can be harder to sell.

If you can stick with Frisco ISD and Frisco city for the best results.

Frisco is only about 1/2 built out at this point.

New construction typically 500K+

There are altrernatives

[Raiders89452]

Originally Posted by Bp25

The part of McKinney with Frisco ISD has section 8 apartment complexes nearby. That's part of the reason prices did not go up that much compared to the rest of Frisco ISD neighborhoods. Something to consider for future resale value.

Did not know that. I believe the houses we were looking into in the Craigs Ranch area of Mckinney fell into Frisco ISD. If future re-sale value was a pretty big factor for us, then should I be trying to look for housing more west of there?

[nissan]

IMO the Sec. 8 units in the apartment complexes in McKinney are already factored into the pricing for the area. It is a decent "bang for the buck" area given it's relatively close proximity to 121 and 75, while getting you into Frisco ISD (for whatever that's worth). From the anecdotes of home sales in our subdivision, it doesn't seem like the nearby Sec. 8 has severely impacted appreciation or sales velocity. Certainly, new construction has slowed it's price increases in our subdivision (nothing like it was in '14-'16).

[Bp25]

Originally Posted by Raiders89452

Did not know that. I believe the houses we were looking into in the Craigs Ranch area of Mckinney fell into Frisco ISD. If future re-sale value was a pretty big factor for us, then should I be trying to look for housing more west of there?

It's not necessarily the proximity to those apartments. Figure out if your search area is zoned for the same schools as those apartments are. I have nothing against section 8, but those are usually allocated to single parents that don't have time or resource to help their students and they eventually hurt the school ranking. There is no magic in Frisco schools, it's the parents involvement in their child's education that produce the good results for the most part.

[Bp25]

Originally Posted by UnfairPark

Their college matriculations for 2017 sure are shocking. Only few selective college acceptances to Stanford, Rice and Cornell. Not a single admission to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, MIT, Williams College, Duke, Pomona etc.

Frisco ISD Honors Top Ten Graduates and Their Selected Teachers

This does not track the students that transfer to TAMS and graduate from there. I don't know if any ex-FISD students from TAMS got admitted to the schools you mentioned but those are the ones with highest chance. Same for PISD. TAMS kind of messes up the data for the north Texas schools' national merit and college admission data.

[Laminate7]

Originally Posted by UnfairPark

Their college matriculations for 2017 sure are shocking. Only few selective college acceptances to Stanford, Rice and Cornell. Not a single admission to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Caltech, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, MIT, Williams College, Duke, Pomona etc.

Frisco ISD Honors Top Ten Graduates and Their Selected Teachers

Here is a kid that go accepted into Printon in Jan from Frisco - where did you get that fake news statement?

https://sportsday.dallasnews.com/hig...larships-offer

[EcoDeb]

There's a new construction in city of Oak Point in Emerald Sound 1 Acre $499K This area is very pretty with lots of trees! The subdivision has hike/ bike trails to the lake.