Harmony School of Excellence - Austin

Size

Harmony School of Excellence - Austin is the smallest of Harmony Public Schools - Central Texas' 2 high schools; its 497 students are 10.7% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.7 miles away with a median enrollment of 129; Harmony School of Excellence - Austin is larger 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 10 with 81 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 55, against an average of 71 per grade. This year grade 12 has 13% fewer students than grade 6 (55 against 63). 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

The largest group is Hispanic students: 89.7% here and 48.6% across Harmony Public Schools - Central Texas. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 59.6% across Harmony Public Schools - Central Texas and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 37.44 full-time-equivalent teachers for 497 students, Harmony School of Excellence - Austin has 13.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 497 students would have about 35.5 teachers, so Harmony School of Excellence - Austin has 1.9 more.

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

Location

Harmony School of Excellence - Austin is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is The Excel Center for Adults - South Austin, 0.4 miles away in The Excel Center (For Adults). Within 10 miles there are 37 other high schools, 18 of them within 5 miles.

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