Harmony School of Discovery - Houston

Size

Of the 2 high schools in Harmony Public Schools - Houston North, Harmony School of Discovery - Houston is the largest, with 11.3% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.9 miles away and have a median of 3,015 students, so Harmony School of Discovery - Houston is smaller than most of them.

As a charter school it is publicly funded and charges no tuition, but it is run under a charter rather than directly by a local school board.

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 8 with 168 students, and its smallest is grade 11 with 73, against an average of 123 per grade. This year grade 12 has 54% fewer students than grade 6 (75 against 164). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 40.7% of enrollment, a lower share than across Harmony Public Schools - Houston North (50.9%). Black students are next, at 23.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

73.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70% across Harmony Public Schools - Houston North and a median of 63.8% for Texas high schools. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

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

Teachers

Harmony School of Discovery - Houston has 54.25 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 858 students would have about 61.3 teachers, so Harmony School of Discovery - Houston has 7 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other high school is Langham Creek High School, 1.3 miles away in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. There are 7 high schools within 5 miles and 27 within 10 miles.

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