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HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE
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 - GRAND PRAIRIE
Located at 1102 NW 7TH ST, in GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE is a reasonably sized primary school that serves 500 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS.
HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 11,042 students; HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE is among them.
Looking at the student body, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE lists that 55% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. Around 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
After controlling for student poverty, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.7%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of +0.0 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household income runs about $76,547, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE is one.
The closest other public school is DIGITAL ARTS & TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY AT ADAMS MIDDLE, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.2%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 4%: 479 students in 2018 compared to 500 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 22% to 6% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.
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