Plano Parent Taught Drivers Ed

Collin County added 42,966 residents in the year ending July 2025 — the second-largest gain of any county in America, per Census estimates — and every one of those families shares your DPS line. NBC 5's reporting found first-available appointments at some DFW offices running two to three months out. The practical Plano move: enroll, let your teen start the 24-hour classroom at home, and book the permit appointment for right after the first six hours are done. The wait and the coursework run in parallel.

Know before you go: the Plano driver license office moved in 2024. It's now at 825 Ohio Drive, at Mapleshade Lane — replacing the old Parker Road office that plenty of online directories still list. McKinney's office at 400 Power House Street is the Collin County backup, and any Texas DPS office can issue the permit, so take whichever calendar opens first.

For first hours behind the wheel, Plano parents lean on John Clark Stadium's lots on Stadium Drive — empty outside game days — and Collin College's Spring Creek campus on weekends, with church lots filling the weekday gaps. From there it's the residential grids off Independence and Custer, then a first run down the US 75 frontage roads with the access-road rules drilled before any real merge. Every hour goes straight into the course's driving log.

On cost: Driving School of North Texas lists its teen course — 24 classroom hours plus 14 driving hours — at $479. The parent-taught route covers the same TDLR-approved 24-hour classroom for $60 and issues the same DE-964 certificates. And when the road test comes, seven driving schools inside Plano are DPS-authorized to administer it, so the final step never waits on a DPS slot.