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HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - CARROLLTON
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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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