Education
BY MICHAEL CROUCHLEY
Education Edition
2025
Welcome to Community Impact’s annual Education Edition Our annual special edition covering the local K-12 public school options in your community features the latest updates from Plano ISD. This guide features updates on the district’s tax rate, enrollment, accountability rating and more. Make sure to check out our front page story, a look at the transition process following the closure of four PISD campuses at the end of last school year. All of the stories were written by our team of local journalists, and all of the advertisements are from nearby businesses who support our mission to provide free, useful news—please show them your gratitude by supporting them. While this edition is focused on education once every year, we cover your local schools every day. You can read those stories daily on our website or in our free daily newsletter.
What's inside
PISD receives ‘B’ grade from TEA (Page 13)
Michael Crouchley Editor mcrouchley@ communityimpact.com
Plano ISD adopts new property tax rate for fiscal year 2025-26 (Page 15)
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Definite Plano ISD enrollment decline steeper than estimated enrollment, our budget is always chasing that,” Hill said. “You’ve got to hire based on what you estimate is going to be there, and then as you go down, you’ve got to track it down.” PISD enrollment
Plano ISD’s enrollment has declined by more than 2,600 students since last year. The big picture The district’s current enrollment as of Sept. 5 sat at 43,905, PISD Deputy Superintendent Johnny Hill said. The number is down from 46,551 in the 2024-25 school year, and lower than the district’s projected enrollment of 45,674. PISD’s enrollment has declined every school year since peaking at 55,659 in 2011-12, and enroll- ment is projected to continue decreasing into the future. The impact Hill said that since PISD builds its budget around estimated enrollment, the district budgeted for about 1,700 more students than are currently enrolled. “Whenever the district is going down in
Projections
He added that the district currently has “about 90” positions that have not been filled, and staff is waiting until after the final enrollment count on Oct. 31 in order to budget for staffing. Diving in deeper PISD’s enrollment decreased year over year in every grade. Three grade levels decreased by more than 300 students from Oct. 24, 2024 to now— ninth, sixth and third grade enrollment decreased by 360, 340 and 335, respectively. Pre-K, fifth grade and eighth grade saw the least drastic decreases, losing 33, 65 and 76 students from last year’s totals, respectively. Plano ISD is currently operating at 70% capacity. Hill said that the district would consider 80-85% to be “perfect efficiency.”
54,580
2015-16
54,027
2017-18
52,646
2019-20
49,381
2021-22
47,904
2023-24
2025-26
43,905
42,338
2027-28
41,370
2029-30
SOURCE: PLANO ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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