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HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND
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Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 73 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 38 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% 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 30 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND
HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND is one of the mid-sized 9-12 campuss in SUGAR LAND, Texas, overseen by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - HOUSTON WEST, with 912 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.
HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND is one of 6 schools operated by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - HOUSTON WEST, a district that caters to 6,541 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND logs that 39% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 22% Black, 20% Hispanic, 17% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 56% of students at HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-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 49.4%; HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND posts 79.8%, +30.3 points above that line.
In the area at large, census data for Fort Bend County shows median household income runs about $114,041, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: TOWNEWEST EL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 42.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. As a public charter, HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION-SUGAR LAND runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 912 students in 2018 compared to 912 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.
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