HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN

HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in AUSTIN, Texas, operated by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - CENTRAL TEXAS. Current enrollment sits at 754 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 45% larger than the state mean of about 519.

HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN is one of 7 schools operated by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - CENTRAL TEXAS, a district that serves 4,647 students overall.

Looking at the student body, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN shows that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 4% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Travis County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Travis County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.6%; this one delivers 26.3%.

Around the school, census data for Travis County shows the typical household earns roughly $99,611 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN is one of 333 public schools in Travis County (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students).

Nearest neighbor: IDEA RUNDBERG COLLEGE PREPARATORY, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN operates from a metropolitan location. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - AUSTIN's enrollment has increased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 611 (now 754). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 75% to 92%. Class-load math has loosened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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