Harmony Science Academy-Katy

Size

Harmony Science Academy-Katy is the 2nd largest of Harmony Public Schools - Houston West's 3 elementary schools; its 1,347 students are 20.6% of district enrollment. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 897; Harmony Science Academy-Katy 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 3 with 175 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 25, against an average of 150 per grade. This year grade 7 has 18% more students than kindergarten (166 against 141). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 25 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 38.2% here and 31.4% across Harmony Public Schools - Houston West. Asian students are next, at 31.1%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

47.2% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 57.1% across Harmony Public Schools - Houston West 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

With 79.85 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,347 students, Harmony Science Academy-Katy has 16.9 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 1,347 students would have about 91 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy-Katy 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

Harmony Science Academy-Katy is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Bonnie Holland Elementary School, 0.8 miles away in Katy ISD. Within 10 miles there are 100 other elementary schools, 29 of them within 5 miles.

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