Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar Land

Size

Of the 3 elementary schools in Harmony Public Schools - Houston West, Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar Land is the largest, with 22.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 520; Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar Land 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 7 with 265 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 110, against an average of 163 per grade. This year grade 8 has 138% more students than kindergarten (262 against 110). 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 Asian students: 40.2% here and 31.9% across Harmony Public Schools - Houston West. Black students are next, at 24.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

57.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 57.1% across Harmony Public Schools - Houston West 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 92.66 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,471 students, Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar Land has 15.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,471 students would have about 99.4 teachers, so Harmony School of Excellence - Sugar Land has 6.7 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 - Sugar Land is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Sugar Mill Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in Fort Bend ISD. Within 10 miles there are 161 other elementary schools, 48 of them within 5 miles.

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