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HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON
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 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 36 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 25 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Texas's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON
HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON is a compact secondary school in CARROLLTON, Texas, run under HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS. The school educates 564 students in grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 796 students per school, that is 29% leaner than typical.
HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 11,042 students; HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON is among them.
On the student-mix side, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Asian, 14% Black, 11% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 51% of students at HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Denton County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.7%; this one delivers 62.9%.
In the broader community, Denton County reports that the typical household earns roughly $111,498 per year, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Denton County's 267 public schools (combined enrollment of about 175,222 students), HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON is one campus in the mix.
HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - CARROLLTON is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 58.3%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON 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 climbed 9%: 518 students in 2018 compared to 564 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 21% to 11% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.
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