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Originally Posted by Crawford
Frisco is largely built-out and has much better schools than the fringe places driving Dallas-area construction. The new places are desirable due to more house for your money. Someone who places greater value on schools would head to an established suburb, sacrificing space for schools.
And West Plano, older and closer-in than Frisco, has even better schools. And North Dallas and Highland Park have the best schools (tho in Dallas proper you're talking private; I doubt many households in affluent parts of North Dallas even consider public).
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My point was, Frisco until 2020 was one of those burbs. Frisco is not an old suburb in Dfw and no one from there considers it that. Middle aged maybe, but not old (again that's a Richardson or Irving). Frisco almost doubled in population between 2010 and 2020, and has had good schools since the growth started there in the 90s. It is only just now literally running out of land as some of the last parcels are being given to a PGA Resort and Universal Studios.
West Plano has is home to the bulk of Collin County's companies/headquarters so makes sense it became the high dollar side, which in the suburbs results in good schools.
Private schools are a whole other story. The point of going moving into a nice suburb with good schools is so you don't have to pay for private schools. In the inner cities you can move to an even nicer house but the school your house is zoned to might suck, so you have to go magnet, do a school lottery, or go private.