Harmony Science Academy - Lubbock

Size

Of the 4 elementary schools in Harmony Public Schools - West Texas, Harmony Science Academy - Lubbock is the 2nd largest, with 9.8% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1.8 miles away and have a median of 452 students, so Harmony Science Academy - Lubbock 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 kindergarten with 69 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 47, against an average of 56 per grade. This year grade 8 has 20% fewer students than kindergarten (55 against 69). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 47 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 55.3% of enrollment, a lower share than across Harmony Public Schools - West Texas (83.3%). Black students are next, at 24.2%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

82.8% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 74.3% across Harmony Public Schools - West 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

Harmony Science Academy - Lubbock has 34.56 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.2 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 559 students would have about 37.8 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy - Lubbock has 3.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Texas elementary schools (14.8).

Location

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 Wester Elementary School, 0.7 miles away in Lubbock ISD. There are 30 elementary schools within 5 miles and 47 within 10 miles.

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