Joining the ever-growing list of schools in Frisco ISD, Wilkinson Middle School and Wortham Intermediate School have opened for the 2023-24 school year. Wilkinson is the 18th middle school in Frisco and Wortham is the very first intermediate school, bringing the total number of schools in Frisco ISD to 77, educating over 67,000 students.  

The new middle school will host the standard 6-8th grade while the new intermediate school will serve 5th and 6th graders with Wortham feeding into Scoggins Middle School and Emerson High School. 

“Wortham Intermediate will be an outstanding school, and I am eager to begin working with students, staff and families on what lies ahead,” Wortham Intermediate School Principal Michael Thomas said in a Frisco ISD news release. 

Wortham Intermediate School will be a larger school, spanning three stories and 142,640 square feet, intended to hold as many as 1,050 students but opened on Aug. 9 with approximately 570 students.  

“I think it’s great that there are more schools opening up in Frisco,” freshman Manesh Senthiokumar said. “I’m just coming from Vandeventer Middle School and I think that it’s amazing that they’re giving more students the opportunity to have a less populated school so they can have a better experience.” 

Being around a limited age range may be beneficial to the intermediate school students according to freshman Ofek Weiss. 

“I came from Vandeventer and the sports were fun, I had really good friends and teachers,” Weiss said. “The new intermediate school is really different from Vandeventer but I think it might be better cause you’ll be just around kids your age instead of people who are two to three years older, so that might just be more advantageous for them.”