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HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 37 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 40 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Texas 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 Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS
HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS is one of the cozy senior highs in DALLAS, Texas, part of HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS, with 539 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 32% below typical.
HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 11,042 students. HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS is one of those campuses.
On demographics, HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (29%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 24% White, 23% Black, 21% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 46% of students at HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Collin County (around 30%), the school's rate is north of typical.
With demographic context factored in, HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 62.1%, a residual of +8.4 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Collin County put the typical household earns roughly $121,600 per year, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).
Nearest neighbor: FRANKFORD MIDDLE, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 52.9%.
The school occupies a high-density site. HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - DALLAS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 41%: 381 students in 2018 compared to 539 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 41% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.
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