HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - DALLAS

Set in DALLAS, Texas, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - DALLAS is an intimate high school, part of HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS. It instructs 596 students across grades 6 through 12. That puts it 25% smaller than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 796 students.

Within HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS, which oversees 16 schools and 11,042 students, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - DALLAS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - DALLAS logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 25% Black, 5% White, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - DALLAS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 47.4%, a residual of +2.3 points.

In the area at large, Dallas County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - DALLAS is one campus in the mix.

CJ & ANNE HYMAN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - DALLAS at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 33.8%.

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

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 38%: 956 students in 2018 compared to 596 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 46% to 64% across the same window.

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