PowerSchool leases 75,000-square-foot Plano office for regional hub

PowerSchool has planted a bigger flag in Plano’s Legacy area, leasing 75,000 square feet for a regional hub that is expected to house hundreds of employees. The office is set up for customer success, information technology, finance and human resources, making the move a working expansion rather than a symbolic address change.

The company, headquartered in Folsom, California, describes itself as a provider of K-12 cloud-based education systems for students, parents, teachers and school administrators. That business model helps explain why Plano made sense: PowerSchool already works with nearby districts including Plano ISD, Frisco ISD and Dallas ISD, so the company is moving closer to customers it already knows and to the North Texas school market it already serves.

Dallas ISD has said its student information system will be replaced with the PowerSchool student information system, underscoring how embedded the company already is in the region’s education infrastructure. For Plano, that creates more than another office lease. It adds a specialized employer tied to one of the most durable local industries, public education, and could deepen the city’s role as a center for K-12 technology support in North Texas.

The lease also has a direct effect on the Legacy office market. A separate report said the deal helped push APEX at Legacy to 97% full, a sign that the submarket is still absorbing large blocks of space even as hybrid work continues to pressure offices elsewhere. At the same time, the broader Legacy neighborhood still had 936,116 square feet of available office space, showing that the corridor remains in transition rather than fully built out.

That transition is already drawing public attention. In January 2026, Plano City Council approved a $150,000 contract to help develop a master plan for the Legacy and Granite Park areas as the district nears buildout. In the same month, AT&T announced plans to move its global headquarters to a new 54-acre campus in Plano’s Legacy District, adding another major corporate commitment to the area.

PowerSchool’s expansion fits that pattern. It brings another corporate support center into a part of Plano that is becoming increasingly defined by education technology, headquarters activity and office demand. For Collin County, the lease signals that Legacy still has room to matter, not just as a place for new tenants, but as one of North Texas’ strongest magnets for specialized professional jobs.