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HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND
HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in GARLAND, Texas, one of the schools within HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS, with 759 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 46% bigger than typical.
Across the 16 schools in HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS (11,042 students total), HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND logs that 28% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 27% Hispanic, 23% White, 19% Asian, 3% multiracial.
Looking at school resources, On paper, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 62% of students at HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dallas County (around 77%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.0%; this one delivers 48.3%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND is one of 771 public schools in Dallas County (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students).
Nearest neighbor: HARMONY SCHOOL OF INNOVATION - GARLAND, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND 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. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GARLAND has expanded 18%, going from 642 students in 2018 to 759 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment climbed from 10% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.
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