Harmony Science Academy-Houston

Size

Harmony Science Academy-Houston is the largest of Harmony Public Schools - Houston South's 2 high schools; its 750 students are 20.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest high schools are a median 2.2 miles away and have a median of 816 students, so Harmony Science Academy-Houston 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 9 with 212 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 167, against an average of 188 per grade. This year grade 12 has 21% fewer students than grade 9 (167 against 212). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 56.8% of enrollment, about the same share as across Harmony Public Schools - Houston South (56%). Black students are next, at 16.7%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

77.2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 80.3% across Harmony Public Schools - Houston South and a median of 63.8% for Texas high 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

Harmony Science Academy-Houston has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16 students per teacher. At the median Texas high school ratio of 14, a school with 750 students would have about 53.6 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy-Houston has 6.6 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas high schools (14).

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 high school is Phoenix School at Southwest Schools, 0.6 miles away in Southwest Public Schools. There are 24 high schools within 5 miles and 56 within 10 miles.

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