HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - BROWNSVILLE

As a mid-tier elementary campus in BROWNSVILLE, Texas, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - BROWNSVILLE caters to 508 students from grades pre-K through 7, overseen by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - SOUTH TEXAS.

HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - SOUTH TEXAS runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,807 students. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - BROWNSVILLE is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - BROWNSVILLE shows that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 3% White.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - BROWNSVILLE has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - BROWNSVILLE higher than the state norm the norm. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cameron County (around 84%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - BROWNSVILLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.8%; this one delivers 29.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Cameron County indicate median household income runs about $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. In all, Cameron County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students), of which HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - BROWNSVILLE is one.

RUSSELL EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - BROWNSVILLE comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

The school occupies an urban site. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - BROWNSVILLE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 9%: 465 students in 2018 compared to 508 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 45% to 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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