Harmony School of Excellence - El Paso

Size

Harmony School of Excellence - El Paso is the largest of Harmony Public Schools - West Texas' 4 elementary schools; its 682 students are 12% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 545 students, so Harmony School of Excellence - El Paso 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 5 with 121 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 45, against an average of 97 per grade. This year grade 5 has 51% more students than kindergarten (121 against 80). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 45 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 92.8% of enrollment, a higher share than across Harmony Public Schools - West Texas (83.3%). Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

81.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.3% across Harmony Public Schools - West Texas and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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 Excellence - El Paso has 37.55 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 682 students would have about 46.1 teachers, so Harmony School of Excellence - El Paso has 8.6 fewer.

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

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 elementary school is Alicia R Chacon International, 0.3 miles away in Ysleta ISD. There are 28 elementary schools within 5 miles and 71 within 10 miles.

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