Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">This feature class contains all public, private, charter, daycare/preschool, and higher education schools primarily in the city of Plano. It also includes some higher education schools outside of the city limit (total 17 schools) and also there are several schools within the Plano ISD that fall outside of the city limit (total 12 schools).</SPAN></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">The schools feature class has the following fields to help categorize the data:</SPAN></P><UL STYLE="margin:0 0 0 0;padding:0 0 0 0;"><LI><P><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic;font-size:10pt">School_Category</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">: </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Public</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Private</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Charter</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Higher Education</SPAN></P></LI><LI><P><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic;font-size:10pt">School_Type</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">: </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Daycare/ECS </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">(ECS = Early Childhood School/preschool), </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Elementary</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Middle</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">High School</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Senior High</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Combined </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">(school serves multiple School_Types), </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">College/University</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Trade/Technical</SPAN></P></LI><LI><P><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic;font-size:10pt">Administration</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">: </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">Independent </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">(means Private), </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">PISD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">FISD</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">, </SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold;font-size:10pt">N/A</SPAN></P></LI></UL><P><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">Daycare includes all licensed and registered child care centers and child care homes through Texas Health and Human Services.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">Charter schools are regulated by and data was pulled from the Texas Education Agency, and were pulled from the TEA website.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">Private schools were pulled from several organizations including Texas Private School Accreditation Commission, National Center for Education Statistics, American Montessori Society, and PrivateSchoolReview.com because there is not one governing body that regulates all private schools.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">Higher education centers were pulled from Texas Workforce Commission and Texas Higher Education Data and include colleges/universities and trade/technical schools.</SPAN></P><P STYLE="font-weight:bold;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN /></P><P STYLE="font-weight:bold;margin:0 0 0 0;"><SPAN STYLE="font-size:10pt">Data was last updated in October 2022.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: PISD, FISD, Texas Health and Human Services, Texas Education Agency (TEA), Texas Private School Accreditation Commission (TPSAC), National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), American Montessori Society (AMS), PrivateSchoolReview.com, Texas Workforce Commission, Texas Higher Education Data, City of Plano BI/GIS