Harmony Science Academy - Odessa

Size

Of the 4 elementary schools in Harmony Public Schools - West Texas, Harmony Science Academy - Odessa is the 3rd largest, with 9.5% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 1 miles away and have a median of 471 students, so Harmony Science Academy - Odessa 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 8 with 76 students, and its smallest is kindergarten with 55, against an average of 60 per grade. This year grade 8 has 38% more students than kindergarten (76 against 55). 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 75.2% of enrollment, a lower share than across Harmony Public Schools - West Texas (83.3%). White students are next, at 15.3%. Students from 6 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

73.4% 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 - Odessa has 30.49 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 17.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 541 students would have about 36.6 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy - Odessa has 6.1 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 El Magnet at Reagan Elementary School, 0.4 miles away in Ector County ISD. There are 22 elementary schools within 5 miles and 28 within 10 miles.

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