Harmony School of Excellence-Houston

Size

Harmony School of Excellence-Houston is the largest of Harmony Public Schools - Houston North's 7 elementary schools; its 1,165 students are 15.4% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 2 miles away with a median enrollment of 823; Harmony School of Excellence-Houston 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 4 with 151 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 110, against an average of 129 per grade. This year grade 8 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (110 against 135). 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: 46.2% here and 50.9% across Harmony Public Schools - Houston North. Black students are next, at 20.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

62% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70% across Harmony Public Schools - Houston North 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

With 71.66 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,165 students, Harmony School of Excellence-Houston has 16.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,165 students would have about 78.7 teachers, so Harmony School of Excellence-Houston has 7 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 School of Excellence-Houston is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Post Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. Within 10 miles there are 149 other elementary schools, 30 of them within 5 miles.

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