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HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 44 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 37 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON
HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON is one of the low-enrollment junior highs in HOUSTON, Texas, overseen by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - HOUSTON SOUTH, with 497 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 643 students each, so HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON sits 23% smaller than that benchmark.
Across the 6 schools in HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - HOUSTON SOUTH (3,663 students total), HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Black, 14% Asian, 7% White. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 88% of students at HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 35.6%; actual is 63.9%, +28.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, census data for Harris County shows median household income runs about $74,983, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON is one.
Nearest neighbor: HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-HOUSTON, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 38.2%.
The campus sits in an urban setting. HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - HOUSTON operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 507 students in 2018 compared to 497 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 44% to 59%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.
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