The Panther Pride

McMillen High School takes pride in preparing our diverse community of students in a safe and supportive environment to inspire them to be successful lifelong learners.

Relationships. Relevance. Rigor.

Please use this tip line to report anything concerning. Help us keep our students safe.

Parents, please remember after school pick up is in the back parking lot only, NOT the bus lane. We appreciate your attention to our students' safety.

Any student without an ID will have another one printed for them. They will be charged $5 for each ID badge that is replaced.

Jan 27 - Plano ISD Science and Engineering Fair

Jan 30 - PTSA Meeting @ 6:00 pm in the library

If your 10th grader signed up for Dual credit classes for 11th grade, they recently received information via email from counselor Sarah Killion about how to apply to Collin College and information about signing up to take the TSIA if they need it. The TSIA will be given at McMillen on February 17th (it is too late to sign up for the January 27th administration). Your student’s email contained information about whether they need to take the TSIA, or you may contact Sarah Killion at sarah.killion@pisd.edu to verify if your student needs this important test. Collin College Representatives are currently visiting McMillen to help students get their applications complete if they need assistance. Please encourage your student to get these important steps completed. After March 2nd, any students who have not completed their required steps for Dual Credit classes will be unenrolled in Dual Credit and their classes will be changed for 11th grade.

If your student no longer wishes to take Dual Credit, or if your student is not signed up for Dual Credit but now wishes to be, please notify Ms. Killion.

ACTION REQUIRED

Please use the click sheets linked here to guide you through the process to approve your student’s Course Selections. The counselors will be meeting with students throughout the next few weeks and finalizing Course Selections. Please check regularly to see if your student’s courses have been entered and then approve them or contact your student’s counselor if you have questions.

Transition to 10th Grade Information:

For information regarding registering your current 9th grader for their 10th grade Courses at McMillen, view a transition to 10th grade Slide Deck with live links.

For information regarding registering your current 9th grader for their 10th grade Courses at McMillen including presentation by McMillen Counselors, view a transition to 10th grade ZOOM recording with McMillen Counselors.

Transition to 11th Grade Information:

For information regarding registering your current 10th grader for their 11th grade Courses at Plano East, view a transition to 11th grade Slide Deck with live links.

For information regarding registering your current 10th grader for their 11th grade Courses at Plano East including presentation by McMillen Counselors, view a transition to 11th grade ZOOM recording with McMillen Counselors.

Disclaimer: An error was made in this ZOOM meeting. A statement was made that Physics was required for the Distinguished level of Achievement Diploma. That is not correct. Four credits of science are required but Physics does not have to be one of them. We’re very sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

McMillen Testing Dates

2024 AP Exam Schedule

PISD Monthly Mental Health Support Sessions

Our East, Senior, and West campus student/cadet participation is now purely on a voluntary basis. All non Plano East student/cadet participants are encouraged to have their parents drive their student/cadet to the workshop. The drop off and pickup location is the Plano East North parking lot near the baseball field, off Los Rios Boulevard, at 8:15 am and 3:30pm. Breakfast is available in the cafeteria and lunch will be provided in their leadership and ethics engagement rooms. I will have a cadet at Panther Circle/flag pole to direct everyone to the school auditorium. From 8:20-8:25 am, we will organize the student/cadets into 7 color coded groupings before entering the auditorium. The facilitators and teachers or substitutes will be positioned in the auditorium with colored coded signs to allow the student/cadet participants to quickly sit with their assigned facilitator.

Once our participation number reaches 130 student/cadets, I will inform all to cease pursuing additional attendees.

The Choir and Theater Departments are currently putting together Legally Blonde the Musical and we are so excited about the show, but we are in need of a few items to get it all together. Below is a sign up genius of all of the things we are needing for the show. If you have any of the items and would be willing to donate them for our show, we would absolutely appreciate it. (If there is something you have but want it back, please let me know ahead of time.)

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094EABA92BA6FB6-47337709-prop#/

We are also selling Program Advertisements as well. If you own a business or someone in your family owns a business, they can promote their business in our show playbill. Or if you have students in the show and would like to send them a Shout Out, I know they would love it. All advertisements are due to McMillen Theater by February 16.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ce5j4O2JQM7sKYvUEO_4gGBRBPyZpPP3T1-HkwqN2eI/edit?usp=sharing

Thank you for supporting the Choir and Theater Department. We really appreciate every bit of help. The show is going to be AMAZING!!! So save the Dates: February 29-March 2. Tickets go on sale next Thursday!!

See below for drill team clinic and tryout dates! All 8th and 9th graders are welcome. See the flyers in the hallway for more details, and information about joining the tryout google classroom.

Please review the new metal detector guidelines and procedures for Plano ISD stadiums.

See the QR code or click the image for a link to the site.

Don’t forget to buy your yearbook soon for $55, before the price increases on December 31st. The McMillen Yearbook staff can’t wait to share a collection of best moments from the year with you!

If you are looking for your student's portraits, use the QR code below or visit www.legacyfindmycode.com

McMillen HS PTSA benefits as a result of the placement of a shoes and clothing donation bin at our school in the parking lot. We are paid by the pound for each pound of shoes, clothing, belts, purses, wallets, hats, caps, backpacks, hard toys and stuffed animals placed in our bin. Please help our PTSA raise funds for school projects, teacher training, new technology and to generally support the children who attend our school.

Learn more how you can make a difference and clean out your closets.

Please be sure to join the McMillen PTSA

Follow this link: https://mcmillenhsptsa.membershiptoolkit.com/worldwear

The 53rd Annual Collin County Poetry Contest is now accepting entries. Students are invited to enter. There is no fee. The contest is sponsored by McKinney’s Mockingbird Chapter of the Poetry Society of Texas. Details are attached.

Please share this information with other teachers who may be interested. Winners are chosen from each grade level. Entries must be postmarked by February 1, 2024. Student winners (1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, and HM) will receive certificates, and one copy of the published anthology of winning poems, at our award ceremony in April of 2024. Entry rules and other details are attached and can be found on our website at www.mockingbirdpoetry.org .