Frisco, Texas almost wasn't named Frisco.  In 1860, a small community by the name of Lebanon was founded & granted a Post Office.  Lebanon was a flourishing cattle community located along what was originally called the old Shawnee Trail - later becoming Preston Trail (named in honor of Captain William C. Preston) & is now known as Preston Road.  This trail provided travel for settlers' wagons & cattle drives going north from Austin.  Later, in 1902, when the St. Louis-San Francisco railroad was being built the town of Lebanon was passed by due to its high elevation on Preston Ridge.  When railways of much earlier days were built watering holes were needed intermittently alongside the rails for steam engines.  A location of high elevation would not work, so a watering hole was placed just four miles west of Lebanon where the ground was much lower.  This watering hole & train stop drew more settlers & eventually grew to become a community.  As the cattle drives began to die down, some of Lebanon's residents actually used logs to move their houses to this newly formed community.  A gentleman by the name of Francis Emerson owned a farm on the site the center of town was to be located.  It seemed right to name the settlement after him, so Emerson was the original name of the little community that petitioned to acquire a post office.  Authorities rejected the name, because it was said to be too similar to another city name in Texas - Emberson.  The men at the depot were already referring to the line as "Frisco" (shortened version of the railway's name St. Louis-San Francisco).  Thus the town, in honor of the railway that made the settlement a community, became Frisco, Texas in 1904.  It wasn't until 1908, however, that the residents of Frisco, Texas voted to become an incorporated city.  With a modest population of 332 in 1910, Frisco's 69 square miles of land has grown to become home to some 95,000 residents.  You can learn more about Frisco, Texas by visiting their official website.

Frisco, Texas has it's own school district, & the majority of it's children attend school in the FISD.  There are some portions of Frisco that extend to Lewisville, Little Elm & Prosper ISDs.  The 21,000 students in Frisco, Texas attend 25 elementary schools, 7 middle schools, 4 high schools, & 2 special programs schools.  For more information on Frisco ISD, you can visit their official website.

Latest Frisco News:  The Tollway is open to Hwy 380

References:
City of Frisco, Texas official website:   http://www.ci.frisco.tx.us  
Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisco,_Texas   
FISD official website:  http://www.friscoisd.org/