Harmony School of Innovation - Brownsville

Size

Of the 2 high schools in Harmony Public Schools - South Texas, Harmony School of Innovation - Brownsville is the smallest, with 10.4% of the district's students. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 420 students, so Harmony School of Innovation - Brownsville 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 12 with 96 students, and its smallest is grade 6 with 40, against an average of 71 per grade. This year grade 12 has 140% more students than grade 6 (96 against 40). 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

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 96% of enrollment, a higher share than across Harmony Public Schools - South Texas (85.3%). Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

90.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.5% across Harmony Public Schools - South Texas and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 Innovation - Brownsville has 34.98 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 498 students would have about 35.6 teachers, so Harmony School of Innovation - Brownsville has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other high school is IDEA Brownsville College Preparatory, 1.3 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. There are 12 high schools within 5 miles and 18 within 10 miles.

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