Harmony School of Science - Austin

Size

Harmony School of Science - Austin is the 3rd largest of Harmony Public Schools - Central Texas' 4 elementary schools; its 486 students are 10.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.4 miles away and have a median of 461 students, so Harmony School of Science - Austin 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 4 with 78 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 57, against an average of 69 per grade. This year grade 5 has 33% more students than kindergarten (76 against 57). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 67 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 30.7% of enrollment, a lower share than across Harmony Public Schools - Central Texas (48.6%). Asian students are next, at 29.2%. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

56.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 59.6% across Harmony Public Schools - Central 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 Science - Austin has 28.62 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 486 students would have about 32.8 teachers, so Harmony School of Science - Austin has 4.2 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 Basis Austin, 1.2 miles away in Basis Texas. There are 44 elementary schools within 5 miles and 127 within 10 miles.

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