Harmony Science Academy - Austin

Size

Of the 4 elementary schools in Harmony Public Schools - Central Texas, Harmony Science Academy - Austin is the largest, with 16.2% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1 miles away with a median enrollment of 505; Harmony Science Academy - Austin 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 93 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 23, against an average of 75 per grade. This year grade 8 has 18% more students than kindergarten (79 against 67). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 23 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 92.3% here and 48.6% across Harmony Public Schools - Central Texas. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

96.9% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 59.6% across Harmony Public Schools - Central Texas and a median of 72% for Texas elementary 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

With 46.9 full-time-equivalent teachers for 754 students, Harmony Science Academy - Austin has 16.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 754 students would have about 50.9 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy - Austin has 4 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

Harmony Science Academy - Austin is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is IDEA Rundberg Academy, 0.3 miles away in IDEA Public Schools. Within 10 miles there are 122 other elementary schools, 49 of them within 5 miles.

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