Harmony Science Academy - Garland

Size

Harmony Science Academy - Garland is the 2nd largest of Harmony Public Schools - North Texas' 8 elementary schools; its 759 students are 6.9% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.6 miles away and have a median of 549 students, so Harmony Science Academy - Garland 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 119 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 23, against an average of 95 per grade. This year grade 6 has 51% more students than kindergarten (115 against 76). 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

Black students are the largest group, at 27.7% of enrollment, about the same share as across Harmony Public Schools - North Texas (26.7%). Hispanic students are next, at 27.4%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

61.5% 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 - Garland has 46.95 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 759 students would have about 51.3 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy - Garland has 4.3 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 Northlake Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in Garland ISD. There are 40 elementary schools within 5 miles and 144 within 10 miles.

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