My daughter attended Vines for both her freshman (2007-2008) and sophmore (2008-2009) year. She love it! I felt that she received a solid education. I found the teachers to be firm but caring, responsive and helpful when asked. The honors and PACE courses were good but tough. We had 2 years of positive
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Posted by a parent on 08/24/09
Vines has been an excellent school for my freshman year and I'm expecting it to continue to be so for my sophomore year. The faculty is pretty good and the classes are well taught. :) Vines Vikings Evermore!!
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Posted by a student on 08/23/09
Im a student here at vines high schoo and i love it here. I feel like the faculty really does try to give us a learning enviorment and does great with conduct problems. Sadly, there is alot of homework and leaves me tired at night. I play on the Sophmore football team and the coaches are amazing. We
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Posted by a student on 09/04/08
I am a student here at Vines High School and I believe that the faculty here has made amazing improvements of sending problem causing kids to special programs. I like the enviorment here and its fun at the same time. Plus, our sophmore football team is the best we beat rockwall-heath 21-0
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Posted by a student on 09/04/08
The administrative staff at this school exhibited little control over problem causing students. This led to lack of control in the classrooms and disruption of the instruction process. More time was spent in the classrooms trying to control situations than in actual instruction which led to a poor
... Read more learning environment. There was little interaction between teachers and parents and little or no response to complaints. I was forced to move my child to a private school due to the lack of control and response to complaints on the part of the principal and other administrative employees. Read less
Posted by a parent on 08/03/08
This school is only focused on money and does not care about our education. Changes that should e made wont.
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Posted by a student on 04/14/08
Average at best. Teachers are non responsive. Over four hours of homework each day.
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Posted by a parent on 01/25/08
There is an enormous problem with safety that goes largely ignored as political correctness is the topmost priority. Mediocre adequately describes the majority of teachers with a few apathetic and lackluster ones mixed in. Unfortunately, many of the better/outstanding teachers were either let go this
... Read more year due to budget cuts or voluntarily left for greener pastures. The JROTC and music programs are superior - one of the few redeeming values of the school. Read less
Posted by a parent on 07/24/06
Undergoing some building improvements. Parent involvement in various activities is high.
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Posted by a parent on 05/15/06
Academic offering is very good. Teachers are willing to help and are willing to work with parents to make students successful. Full list of extracurricular activities available to all students. Parent involvement is somewhat lacking. PTA is active but very limited in number of parents actually involved.
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Plano schools — Vines High School is located at 1401 Highedge Dr, Plano TX 75075. 1401 Highedge Dr is in the 75075 ZIP code in Plano, TX The school district for Vines High School is the Plano Independent School District. Vines High School is a Public school that serves grade levels 9 - 10.
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