Harmony School of Technology-Houston

Size

Harmony School of Technology-Houston is the only middle school in Harmony Public Schools - Houston North. Its 703 students are 9.3% of the district's 7,571. The 8 nearest middle schools are a median 2.3 miles away and have a median of 883 students, so Harmony School of Technology-Houston is smaller 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 244 students, and its smallest is grade 8 with 216, against an average of 234 per grade. This year grade 8 has 11% fewer students than grade 6 (216 against 244). 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 70.4% of enrollment, a higher share than across Harmony Public Schools - Houston North (50.9%). Black students are next, at 16.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

71.4% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 70% across Harmony Public Schools - Houston North and a median of 65.6% for Texas middle 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 Technology-Houston has 41.44 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17 students per teacher. At the median Texas middle school ratio of 14.4, a school with 703 students would have about 48.8 teachers, so Harmony School of Technology-Houston has 7.4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas middle schools (14.4).

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 middle school is Shotwell Middle School, 1 miles away in Aldine ISD. There are 13 middle schools within 5 miles and 47 within 10 miles.

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