Harmony School of Innovation - Laredo

Size

Of the 3 elementary schools in Harmony Public Schools - South Texas, Harmony School of Innovation - Laredo is the largest, with 14.1% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 495 students, so Harmony School of Innovation - Laredo 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 2 with 126 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 78, against an average of 113 per grade. This year grade 5 has 56% more students than kindergarten (122 against 78). 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 98.7% 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.

88.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.5% across Harmony Public Schools - South Texas 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

Harmony School of Innovation - Laredo has 39.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.3 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 679 students would have about 45.9 teachers, so Harmony School of Innovation - Laredo has 6.6 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 Newman Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in United ISD. There are 38 elementary schools within 5 miles and 48 within 10 miles.

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