Plano Texas

Plano is a city located in Texas, mainly within Collin County, but also extending into Denton County. It is a suburb of Dallas, Texas.

Plano has seen rapid growth and is the the ninth largest city in Texas, and the seventieth most populous city in the United States; it had grown to 250,096 in the 2005 census estimate. Plano is within the Dallas Plano Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas Fort Worth Arlington metropolitan area, a title designated by the U.S. Census, and is colloquially referred to as the Metroplex. The city is home to many corporate headquarters, including Cadbury Schweppes, Ericsson, Perot Systems, Electronic Data Systems, Frito-Lay, Cinemark Theatres, UGS, and JCPenney. In 2006, Plano was selected as the 11th best place to live in the United States by Money magazine.

Plano's parks feature playgrounds, several bicycling trails, and two nature preserves. The bike trails take advantage of several contigous parks to extend their range. The Arbor Hills Nature Preserve is located west of the Dallas North Tollway on Parker Rd. It features a shared pedestrian and bicycling trail which highlights the assets of the preserve, and the woods within the preserve are traversed by several unpaved trails.

Plano Independent School District serves most of Plano. There are three senior high schools (grades 11-12) in PISD; Plano East, Plano Senior, and Plano West. Small portions of Plano are served by the Lewisville Independent School District,Frisco Independent School District, and Carrolton Independent School District. Plano is the home to two campuses of the Collin County Community College District, one at the Courtyard Center on Preston Park Boulevard and the larger Spring Creek Campus on Spring Creek Parkway at Jupiter. In 2006, Plano Independent School District announced that 115 seniors were selected as National Merit Semifinalists, the largest in the district's history.

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