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HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - GRAND PRAIRIE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 24 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% 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%.
7-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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