Harmony Science Academy - Midland

Size

Harmony Science Academy - Midland is the smallest of Harmony Public Schools - West Texas' 4 elementary schools; its 257 students are 4.5% of district enrollment. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 3.5 miles away and have a median of 587 students, so Harmony Science Academy - Midland is smaller 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 kindergarten with 53 students, and its smallest is grade 2 with 26, against an average of 37 per grade. This year grade 5 has 49% fewer students than kindergarten (27 against 53). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 44 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

Hispanic students are the largest group, at 68.5% of enrollment, a lower share than across Harmony Public Schools - West Texas (83.3%). White students are next, at 19.1%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

54.9% 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. 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 - Midland has 14.29 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 257 students would have about 17.4 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy - Midland has 3.1 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, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Pease Communications/Technology Academy, 2.1 miles away in Midland ISD. There are 13 elementary schools within 5 miles and 29 within 10 miles.

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