Harmony Science Academy - Brownsville

Size

Harmony Science Academy - Brownsville is the smallest of Harmony Public Schools - South Texas' 3 elementary schools; its 508 students are 10.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1 miles away with a median enrollment of 425; Harmony Science Academy - Brownsville 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 kindergarten with 70 students, and its smallest is grade 7 with 29, against an average of 56 per grade. This year grade 7 has 59% fewer students than kindergarten (29 against 70). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 52 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 95.1% here and 85.3% across Harmony Public Schools - South Texas. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

94.1% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.5% across Harmony Public Schools - South 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

With 29.79 full-time-equivalent teachers for 508 students, Harmony Science Academy - Brownsville has 17.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 508 students would have about 34.3 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy - Brownsville has 4.5 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 - Brownsville is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people, which NCES calls city, midsize. The nearest other elementary school is Russell Elementary School, 0.3 miles away in Brownsville ISD. Within 10 miles there are 44 other elementary schools, 31 of them within 5 miles.

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