{"id":403854,"date":"2026-08-11T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403854\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:34:08","slug":"gallery-plano-isd-welcomes-students-back-for-2026-27-school-year-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/403854\/","title":{"rendered":"GALLERY: Plano ISD welcomes students back for 2026-27 school year | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 11 was the first day of school for Plano ISD students.<\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>Parents, students and staff gathered at campuses across the district, including <a href=\"https:\/\/daffron.pisd.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daffron Elementary School<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PISD consists of 42 elementary schools, 12 middle schools, seven high schools and three senior high schools, and serves students across 10 Collin County cities. The district will be adding another facility during this school year, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/plano\/education\/plano-isd-cte-center-on-track-to-open-in-october\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Career and Technical Education Center<\/a> is slate to open in October.<\/p>\n<p>The district&#8217;s enrollment last year was 43,838 students, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/plano-north\/education\/demographer-plano-isd-enrollment-could-drop-below-40000-in-4-years\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">demographer projecting<\/a> 42,186 students for this school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 11 was the first day of school for Plano ISD students. The gist Parents, students and staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[62780,160,162,2336,161],"class_list":["post-403854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-first-day-of-school","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-isd","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}