Harmony Elementary School

Size

Harmony Elementary School is the 2nd largest of East Central ISD's 8 elementary schools; its 781 students are 6.8% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 4 miles away with a median enrollment of 688; Harmony Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 5 with 123 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 82, against an average of 112 per grade. This year grade 5 has 14% more students than kindergarten (123 against 108). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 82 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 81.3% here and 73.3% across East Central ISD. White students are next, at 14.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

64.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70.1% across East Central ISD and a median of 72% for Texas elementary schools. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 43.97 full-time-equivalent teachers for 781 students, Harmony Elementary School has 17.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 781 students would have about 52.8 teachers, so Harmony Elementary School has 8.8 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Harmony Elementary School is in rural territory within 5 miles of an urbanized area or 2.5 miles of a town, which NCES calls rural, fringe. The nearest other elementary school is Highland Forest Elementary School, 3.5 miles away in the same district. Within 10 miles there are 56 other elementary schools, 8 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.