Plano West

The newest of the senior high schools in Plano. Most students from Plano or especially Plano East will tell you that the school is nothing but a bunch of "rich kids", although the population is basically upper-middle class. The exuberant displays of wealth have died down here in recent years, most evident in the parking lot. There's a few Audis and Mercedes, but that's about as nice as they get. The typical student drives a hand-me-down or used Toyota. The people here aren't mean, they just come off that way because of the fact that they are wealthier than average and don't really interact with people outside their circle of friends. The school is very diverse, however, and everyone can find their niche. The teachers are great too, but the school is EXTREMELY competitive academically, because of the large Asian population as well as the white population whose parents went to an Ivy League school and therefore have ultra-high expectations for their teens. You have to have a 4.0 or higher to be in the top 10%. Drugs aren't all that big of a problem here, but alcohol runs rampant. Even some of the last kids you'd expect have Facebook pictures with them drinking a beer or with other kids in the background drinking beer, usually Keystone Light. Everyone here has matured a bit since their days at Shepton and Jasper, and therefore fights very rarely occur, on campus at least. The school's football team isn't that great, but the school excels in other areas to compensate, most notably in the Fine Arts department and the tennis team. And I'm not gonna lie, we have the worst-looking campus of the three high schools. The other two schools have picturesque campuses with nice ponds, we on the other hand have this pathetic, tiny pond in the shape of a "W" that is rarely turned on, serving as a rather nice stagnant home for the dying fish. Overall the school isn't that bad, but not that great either.