Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Harmony Public Schools - North Texas, Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie is the 7th largest, with 4.5% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.4 miles away with a median enrollment of 612; Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie 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 grade 6 with 58 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 45, against an average of 50 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 45 in kindergarten and 48 in grade 8. It also enrolls 45 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Hispanic students: 54.8% here and 40.2% across Harmony Public Schools - North Texas. Black students are next, at 32.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

78.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 65.1% across Harmony Public Schools - North 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 29 full-time-equivalent teachers for 500 students, Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie has 17.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 500 students would have about 33.8 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie has 4.8 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 - Grand Prairie is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other elementary school is Stephen F Austin Environmental Science Academy, 0.5 miles away in Grand Prairie ISD. Within 10 miles there are 159 other elementary schools, 39 of them within 5 miles.

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