Harmony Science Academy - Cedar Park

Size

Of the 4 elementary schools in Harmony Public Schools - Central Texas, Harmony Science Academy - Cedar Park is the 2nd largest, with 16% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 504 students, so Harmony Science Academy - Cedar Park 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 2 with 138 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 44, against an average of 106 per grade. This year grade 5 has 20% fewer students than kindergarten (92 against 115). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 44 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Asian students are the largest group, at 59.6% of enrollment, a higher share than across Harmony Public Schools - Central Texas (24.1%). White students are next, at 14.7%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

18.5% 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 Science Academy - Cedar Park has 38.85 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.1 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 742 students would have about 50.1 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy - Cedar Park has 11.2 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 suburb, large, which means it is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city. The nearest other elementary school is Cypress Elementary School, 0.5 miles away in Leander ISD. There are 24 elementary schools within 5 miles and 74 within 10 miles.

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