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HARMONY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE - EL PASO
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Located at 1730 JOE BATTLE BLVD, in EL PASO, Texas, HARMONY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE - EL PASO is a large multi-level school that hosts 1,308 students (grades pre-K through 10), part of HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - WEST TEXAS. Compared to the state average of about 485 students per school, that is 170% larger than typical.
HARMONY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE - EL PASO is one of 7 schools operated by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - WEST TEXAS, a district that teaches 5,687 students overall.
Demographically, HARMONY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE - EL PASO records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). Other groups include 6% White, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with El Paso County as a whole.
On the income-and-resources front, HARMONY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE - EL PASO reports 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.7:1 average. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARMONY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE - EL PASO sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.3%; this one delivers 51.5%.
In the surrounding community, census data for El Paso County shows median household income runs about $59,806, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. In all, El Paso County runs 273 public schools (combined enrollment of about 165,404 students), of which HARMONY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE - EL PASO is one.
VISTA DEL FUTURO CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARMONY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE - EL PASO. On composite proficiency, HARMONY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE - EL PASO comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.
The school occupies a residential site. HARMONY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE - EL PASO operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
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