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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - LAREDO this year?
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Enrollment
671
High
DISTRICT 585 · STATE 796
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - SOUTH TEXAS·NCES 480026613428
Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo
4401 SAN FRANCISCO AVE BLD B, LAREDO, TX 78041 · (956) 791-0007 · Webb County
GRADES 09–12HIGH11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL671 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 74% of Texas public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public high schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
594 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 185 | 28% |
| Grade 10 | 186 | 28% |
| Grade 11 | 156 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 144 | 21% |
Student demographics
0%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Based on grade levels within HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - SOUTH TEXAS. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
46.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +16.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
59.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +51.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 51 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 8.0% | 38.0% | 17.0% | 37.0% |
| Mathematics | 16.0% | 43.0% | 30.0% | 11.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 46.0% | 59.0% |
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 71.0% |
| 2022-23 | 38.0% | 57.0% |
| 2021-22 | 29.0% | 36.0% |
| 2020-21 | 30.0% | 8.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
63.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.9%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+27.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 36% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 28 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo
Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo's state test result (63.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo this school | 671 | 88.5% | 63.8% |
| Fabens High School FABENS | 616 | 88.6% | 38.0% |
| IDEA College Preparatory San Juan SAN JUAN | 741 | 89.2% | 42.4% |
| IDEA Frontier College Preparatory BROWNSVILLE | 781 | 88.3% | 51.9% |
| IDEA Weslaco Pike College Preparatory WESLACO | 758 | 87.1% | 57.5% |
| IDEA Rio Grande City College Preparatory RIO GRANDE CITY | 695 | 90.1% | 50.7% |
Matched among Texas high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Webb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.8% | #386 of 1,385 | #4 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #302 of 1,425 ▲ 72 | #5 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,067 of 1,425 ▼ 31 | #6 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.0pp | #971 of 1,184 | #9 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 671 | #761 of 2,107 | #8 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #902 of 1,344 | #5 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 0.3% | #1,340 of 1,346 | #9 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 88.5% | #226 of 1,522 | #7 of 11 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +88.0% | #33 of 672 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
671
+106 (+19%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 17.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 671 | 42 | 16.0:1 | 89% (594) |
| 2023-24 | 679 | 43.9 | 15.5:1 | 90% (611) |
| 2022-23 | 637 | 45 | 14.2:1 | 86% (548) |
| 2020-21 | 565 | 33 | 17.1:1 | 85% (480) |
| 2017-18 | 357 | 28.2 | 12.7:1 | 69% (247) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo.
Since 2017-18: students up 88% (357 to 671); teachers up 49% (28.2 to 42).
About Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo
Federal records list Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo as a high school in LAREDO, Texas. Its enrollment is 671 students, spread over grades 9 through 12.
HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - SOUTH TEXAS is made up of 9 schools with 4,807 students in all.
Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo is 100% Hispanic by enrollment. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo scores 0%.
Based on 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo has a ratio of 16.0:1. Compared with the 15.1:1 average for high schools in Texas, this school's ratio is higher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 89%.
Among Texas public high schools, Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo outscored 74%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo beats its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 27.9 points (63.8% versus 35.9%), a top-10% result in Texas on BeatsExpectations.
The county, Webb County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $63,058, about 21% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 19% of residents are in poverty. The county has 95 public schools and about 63,717 students.
Measured in a straight line, Harmony Science Academy - Laredo is less than a tenth of a mile from Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo. The five-mile area around Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo holds at least 8 other public schools. Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo comes in 2nd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.
The school's student count increased 19% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The number of students per teacher dropped from 17.1 to 16.0 over 4 years.
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Webb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
269,294
Census ACS
Median income
$63,058
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
19%
Below federal line
Schools in county
95
63,717 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - SOUTH TEXAS
- Harmony Science Academy (san Antonio)Combined · 718 students
- Harmony School of Innovation - LaredoElementary · 679 students
- Harmony Science Academy - LaredoMiddle · 659 students
- Harmony School of Science- San AntonioElementary · 602 students
- Harmony Science Academy - BrownsvilleElementary · 508 students
- Harmony School of Innovation - BrownsvilleHigh · 498 students
Other schools in LAREDO
- United High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- United South High SchoolHigh · 3,252 students
- Lyndon B JohnsonHigh · 3,240 students
- John B Alexander High SchoolHigh · 3,171 students
- Nixon High SchoolHigh · 2,124 students
- Martin High SchoolHigh · 1,975 students
Nearby schools
- Harmony Science Academy - Laredo0.1 mi · 659
- Pierce Elementary School0.6 mi · 662
- Santa Maria Elementary School0.6 mi · 465
- Farias Elementary School0.7 mi · 597
- T Sanchez El / H Ochoa Elementary School0.8 mi · 569
- Clark Elementary School0.8 mi · 354
Frequently asked questions
About Harmony School of Excellence - LaredoHow many students attend Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo?
Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo enrolls approximately 671 students in grades 09-12.
Is Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo an elementary, middle, or high school?
Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo.
How diverse is Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo?
Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo reports a student body of 0% White, 100% Hispanic.
Who oversees Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo?
Harmony School of Excellence - Laredo is overseen by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - SOUTH TEXAS in Webb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.