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HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveWhat this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL
HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL is a four-year high school of large scale in ST CLOUD, Florida, run under OSCEOLA, educateing 2,673 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL sits 158% larger than that benchmark.
HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 83 schools operated by OSCEOLA, a district that teaches 75,388 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% White, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Osceola County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL has 123 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.5:1, putting HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Osceola County (around 52%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.8%, the actual is 53.6%, a residual of -8.2 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Osceola County put the typical household earns roughly $72,637 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 88 public schools in Osceola County (combined enrollment of about 74,164 students).
Nearest neighbor: HARMONY MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARMONY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.7%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 9%: 2,463 students in 2018 compared to 2,673 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 38% to 54% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Osceola County at a glance
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