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What's the one class at HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE every student should take?
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Enrollment
500
Elementary
DISTRICT 669 · STATE 519
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS·NCES 480029212050
Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie
1102 NW 7TH ST, GRAND PRAIRIE, TX 75050 · (972) 642-9911 · Dallas County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL500 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% of Texas public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Texas public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 15.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
391 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 45 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 50 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 48 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 6% smaller than its 8th grade class (48).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 63% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
47.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +23.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
38.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +12.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 23 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 18.0% | 29.0% | 28.0% | 25.0% |
| Mathematics | 11.0% | 27.0% | 24.0% | 38.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 47.0% | 38.0% |
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 28.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 33.0% |
| 2022-23 | 42.0% | 41.0% |
| 2021-22 | 40.0% | 39.0% |
| 2020-21 | 24.0% | 26.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.3%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie
Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie's state test result (34.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie this school | 500 | 78.2% | 34.3% |
| Harmony School of Innovation - Grand Prairie GRAND PRAIRIE | 516 | 77.9% | 39.4% |
| Shaw Elementary School MESQUITE | 483 | 80.3% | 40.0% |
| Mackey Elementary School BALCH SPRINGS | 478 | 81.0% | 27.6% |
| Harry Stone Montessori Academy DALLAS | 505 | 79.0% | 52.9% |
| Fitzgerald Elementary School ARLINGTON | 451 | 83.6% | 43.4% |
Matched among Texas elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Dallas County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #3,234 of 4,401 | #275 of 421 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #3,049 of 4,466 ▲ 822 | #271 of 429 ▲ 97 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #2,820 of 4,466 ▲ 345 | #211 of 429 ▲ 55 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.0pp | #2,664 of 3,998 | #229 of 399 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 500 | #2,544 of 4,938 | #214 of 448 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.2:1 | #3,971 of 4,622 | #380 of 432 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.0% | #1,500 of 4,628 | #99 of 433 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.2% | #2,078 of 4,789 | #295 of 437 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.4% | #1,020 of 1,307 | #92 of 118 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
500
+44 (+10%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.2:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 500 | 29 | 17.2:1 | 78% (391) |
| 2023-24 | 496 | 31.6 | 15.7:1 | 79% (392) |
| 2022-23 | 537 | 32.9 | 16.3:1 | 84% (449) |
| 2020-21 | 456 | 30 | 15.2:1 | 76% (348) |
| 2017-18 | 479 | 36.9 | 13.0:1 | 74% (355) |
| 2015-16 | 573 | 39 | 14.7:1 | 69% (394) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (479 to 500); teachers down 21% (36.9 to 29).
About Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie
Students in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, attend Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie, a mid-sized elementary school. In all, 500 students attend the school in pre-K through 8.
HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS enrolls 11,042 students, and its 16 schools include Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie.
The student body at Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie is 55% Hispanic. It is also 32% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Dallas County's residents are about 41% Hispanic, 14 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 59% means there is a 59% chance two randomly chosen students at Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie are from different groups.
The school had 29 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 17.2:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Texas is 15.1:1. The school reported 78% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The figure for public schools in Dallas County is close, at 77%.
Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 23% of Texas public elementary schools.
Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 34.3% is 6.0 points below the 40.3% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Dallas County, the median household earns about $76,547 a year, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Dallas County has 771 public schools with about 459,645 students, including Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, Digital Arts & Technology Academy at Adams Middle School, is the closest to Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data. Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie is a public charter school.
The school's student count rose 10% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Students per teacher increased from 15.2 in 2020-21 to 17.2 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Dallas County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,621,179
Census ACS
Median income
$76,547
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
771
459,645 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS
- Harmony Science Academy- Fort WorthElementary · 1,232 students
- Harmony Science Academy - DallasCombined · 1,110 students
- Harmony School of Innovation - Fort WorthHigh · 947 students
- Harmony Science Academy - GarlandElementary · 759 students
- Harmony School of Innovation- EulessElementary · 708 students
- Harmony Science Academy - EulessHigh · 659 students
Other schools in GRAND PRAIRIE
- South Grand Prairie High SchoolHigh · 3,239 students
- Grand Prairie High SchoolHigh · 2,817 students
- John A Dubiski Career High SchoolHigh · 1,574 students
- Bill Arnold Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- Advantage AcademyCombined · 972 students
- Iltexas Grand Prairie Elementary SchoolElementary · 936 students
Nearby schools
- Digital Arts & Technology Academy at Adams Middle School0.3 mi · 542
- Crosswinds Accelerated High School0.4 mi · 435
- Grand Prairie Fine Arts Academy0.5 mi · 877
- Stephen F Austin Environmental Science Academy0.5 mi · 605
- Grand Prairie High School0.6 mi · 2,817
- Uplift Grand Prep High School0.9 mi · 385
Frequently asked questions
About Harmony Science Academy - Grand PrairieHow large is Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie?
Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie enrolls approximately 500 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie serve?
Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie?
Approximately 17.2:1 students per teacher at Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie?
At Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie, the student body is approximately 6% White, 55% Hispanic, 32% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie?
Harmony Science Academy - Grand Prairie is overseen by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS in Dallas County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.