Harmony School of Innovation - Waco

Size

Harmony School of Innovation - Waco is the 4th largest of Harmony Public Schools - North Texas' 7 high schools; its 614 students are 5.6% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 3.2 miles away and have a median of 479 students, so Harmony School of Innovation - Waco 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 8 with 108 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 56, against an average of 88 per grade. This year grade 12 has 47% fewer students than grade 6 (56 against 105). 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 75.1% of enrollment, a higher share than across Harmony Public Schools - North Texas (40.2%). White students are next, at 12.5%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

86.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 65.1% across Harmony Public Schools - North Texas and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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 Innovation - Waco has 38.01 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 614 students would have about 43.9 teachers, so Harmony School of Innovation - Waco has 5.9 fewer.

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 suburb, midsize, which means it is in an urbanized area of 100,000 to 250,000 people, outside its principal city. The nearest other high school is University High School, 1.7 miles away in Waco ISD. There are 9 high schools within 5 miles and 13 within 10 miles.

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