Harmony School of Exploration- Houston

Size

Harmony School of Exploration- Houston is the smallest of Harmony Public Schools - Houston South's 2 elementary schools; its 687 students are 18.8% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 0.9 miles away and have a median of 665 students, so Harmony School of Exploration- Houston is close to their typical size.

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 1 with 120 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 22, against an average of 98 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 103 in kindergarten and 107 in grade 5. It also enrolls 22 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 57.2% of enrollment, about the same share as across Harmony Public Schools - Houston South (56%). Black students are next, at 24.9%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

87.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.3% across Harmony Public Schools - Houston South and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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

Harmony School of Exploration- Houston has 52.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 687 students would have about 46.4 teachers, so Harmony School of Exploration- Houston has 6.1 more.

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 Landis Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Alief ISD. There are 73 elementary schools within 5 miles and 180 within 10 miles.

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