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HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND
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Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyAbout HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND
As a sprawling primary school in SUGAR LAND, Texas, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND educates 1,471 students from grades K through 8, run under HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - HOUSTON WEST. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 183% above typical.
Across the 6 schools in HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - HOUSTON WEST (6,541 students total), HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND records that 40% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 25% Black, 19% Hispanic, 14% White, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.
In terms of school funding signals, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND lists 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fort Bend County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.6%; HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND posts 68.0%, +19.4 points above that line.
In the broader community, census data for Fort Bend County shows median household income runs about $114,041, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Fort Bend County runs 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), of which HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND is one.
Nearest neighbor: SUGAR MILL EL, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.2%.
HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND operates from a high-density location. HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - SUGAR LAND is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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