Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology-Houston

Size

Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology-Houston is the largest of Harmony Public Schools - Houston South's 2 elementary schools; its 742 students are 20.3% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2.4 miles away and have a median of 500 students, so Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology-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 90 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 76, against an average of 82 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 83 in kindergarten and 76 in grade 8.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 47.6% of enrollment, a lower share than across Harmony Public Schools - Houston South (56%). Black students are next, at 44.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

75.1% 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 Fine Arts and Technology-Houston has 47.42 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.6 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 742 students would have about 50.1 teachers, so Harmony School of Fine Arts and Technology-Houston has 2.7 fewer.

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

Location

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 Longfellow Elementary School, 1.7 miles away in Houston ISD. There are 49 elementary schools within 5 miles and 200 within 10 miles.

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