Harmony School of Science - El Paso

Size

Harmony School of Science - El Paso is the largest of Harmony Public Schools - West Texas' 2 schools; its 1,308 students are 23% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest schools sit a median 81.6 miles away with a median enrollment of 209; Harmony School of Science - El Paso 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 6 with 175 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 46, against an average of 109 per grade. This year grade 10 has 43% fewer students than kindergarten (60 against 105). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 46 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 86.6% here and 83.3% across Harmony Public Schools - West Texas. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

70% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.3% across Harmony Public Schools - West Texas and a median of 61.6% for Texas 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

With 74.81 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,308 students, Harmony School of Science - El Paso has 17.5 students per teacher. At the median Texas school ratio of 11, a school with 1,308 students would have about 118.9 teachers, so Harmony School of Science - El Paso has 44.1 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas schools (11).

Location

Harmony School of Science - El Paso is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other school is El Paso Classical Academy, 3.6 miles away in Texas College Preparatory Academies. Within 10 miles there is 1 other school, 1 of them within 5 miles.

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