Harmony Science Academy - Plano

Size

Of the 8 elementary schools in Harmony Public Schools - North Texas, Harmony Science Academy - Plano is the 4th largest, with 5.7% of the district's students. Its 8 closest elementary schools sit a median 1.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 455; Harmony Science Academy - Plano 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 1 with 106 students, and its smallest is pre-K with 45, against an average of 90 per grade. This year grade 5 has 19% fewer students than kindergarten (80 against 99). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate. It also enrolls 45 children in pre-K.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 29.3% here and 26.7% across Harmony Public Schools - North Texas. White students are next, at 24.4%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

57.6% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 65.1% across Harmony Public Schools - North 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

With 35.44 full-time-equivalent teachers for 627 students, Harmony Science Academy - Plano has 17.7 students per teacher. At the median Texas elementary school ratio of 14.8, a school with 627 students would have about 42.4 teachers, so Harmony Science Academy - Plano has 7 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 - Plano is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other elementary school is Jackson Elementary School, 1.2 miles away in Plano ISD. Within 10 miles there are 173 other elementary schools, 41 of them within 5 miles.

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