Harmony Science Academy- Fort Worth

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Harmony Public Schools - North Texas, Harmony Science Academy- Fort Worth is the largest, with 11.2% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.2 miles away and have a median of 434 students, so Harmony Science Academy- Fort Worth 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 5 with 192 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 85, against an average of 154 per grade. This year grade 6 has 34% more students than kindergarten (187 against 140). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 85 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 37.4% of enrollment, a lower share than across Harmony Public Schools - North Texas (40.2%). Black students are next, at 36.9%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

59.7% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 65.1% across Harmony Public Schools - North 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- Fort Worth has 73.13 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.8 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,232 students would have about 83.2 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy- Fort Worth has 10.1 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 city, large, which means it is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more. The nearest other elementary school is Westcreek Elementary School, 0.1 miles away in Fort Worth ISD. There are 50 elementary schools within 5 miles and 126 within 10 miles.

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