HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN

HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN operates as a low-enrollment four-year high school in AUSTIN, Texas, run under HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - CENTRAL TEXAS. Current enrollment sits at 497 students spanning grades 6 through 12. That puts it 38% below the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN is one of 7 schools operated by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - CENTRAL TEXAS, a district that educates 4,647 students overall.

In terms of who attends, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (90%). Other groups include 4% Black, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Travis County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Travis County indicate median household earnings sit near $99,611, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Travis County runs 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), of which HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN is one.

Nearest neighbor: HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - AUSTIN, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN. On composite proficiency, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 29.5%.

The school occupies an urban site. HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - AUSTIN's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 582 (now 497). White enrollment moved from 13% to 4% across the same window.

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