The Colony is within commuting distance of 34 campuses of both private and state colleges and universities as well as community colleges. The Colony is also less than fifteen minutes from the Preston Ridge campus of Collin County Community College, which has hi-tech courses in telecommunications (including various certification programs) as well as high-level computer courses and accompanying certification programs.

The Colony High School was built in 1986. The school was designated as a Recognized campus from 1996-1999, and 2009, and was designated as an Exemplary school for the years 2000-2003.

We are proud to be a recipient of a $265,000 Hewlett Packard Innovations in Education Grant. This grant enabled us to integrate academics with a business challenge: the design of an electric car.

The Colony High School received Gold Performance Acknowledgments from the Texas Education Agency in 2008-09 for: College Ready Graduates, Recommended High School Program/DAP Class of 2008, Comparable Improvement in Reading/ELA, Commended on Social Studies, and Texas Success Initiative in ELA.

Student to Teacher Ratio (as of May 2010)
K-6	20:1	3,106 students
6-8	20:1	1,480 students
9-12	27:1*	1,973 students
		* Core Subjects

There are over 50,000 students enrolled in the LISD district.