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PISD 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. Accolades are listed on the website . School in Plano ISD starts in early August instead of after Labor Day . Thus, it also ends in late May instead of in June. Texas has been trying to make all schools start in September. PISD has been trying to convince Texas to make them an exception. PLANO'S HIGH SCHOOL SYSTEM Plano ISD employs an unconventional High School system. In PISD, students in grades nine and ten attend one of five 'high schools', which generally have three Middle School s feeding into each. However, students in grades eleven and twelve attend 'senior high schools'. There are three senior high schools in Plano, each with approximately two high school feeders. This leads to incredibly huge graduating classes and overall student populations. At Plano Senior, Plano East, and Plano West, the current student populations are listed as 2344, 2526, and 1879 students, respectively. Each year's graduating class is approximately half of each number. Graduation typically takes place at Reunion Arena in Dallas. All three of PISD's 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 ISD schools reportedly administer more Advanced Placement tests than any other school district west of the Mississippi River . IN THE NEWS On 20 January , 2006, a Hurricane Katrina evacuee enrolled at Plano West Senior High School and his biology teacher discovered what the students have affectionately named "X-fish" - a prehistoric fish - on the school grounds. {Link without Title} On the 9 December , 2005, edition of '' The O'Reilly Factor '', as part of his " War On Christmas " segment, news commentator, Bill O'Reilly falsely claimed that the district had banned students from wearing Red and Green clothing "because they were Christmas colors" . An attorney from the school district requested a retraction. O'Reilly later retracted his allegation on 20 December . O'Reilly had mistakenly included clothing among the items banned by PISD, while the ongoing lawsuit against the district only alleges the banning of red and green plates, napkins and other items brought to the school "winter parties." A lawsuit was filed against PISD on Dec 15, 2004 (Jonathan Morgan, et al., v. the Plano Independent School District, et al.). On Dec 16, 2004, prior to the school "winter parties, Judge Paul Brown of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a Temporary Restraining Order , requiring PISD to lift these restrictions. In a ruling upheld by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in July of 2003, Plano ISD was found to have violated First Amendment rights of parents during public meetings about the implementation of a controversial new math curriculum, "Connected Math". The district briefly considered an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, but instead reached a settlement of $400,000. It is important to note that this was a settlement of the judgment, not the ruling of a First Amendment rights violation by the district. LIST OF SCHOOLS Each household in Plano ISD is zoned to an elementary school, a middle school, a high school, and a senior high school. Secondary schools Senior high schools
Middle schools
K-8 schools
Primary schools
Early childhood schools
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