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HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO
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STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 31 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 24 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 34% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Texas's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO
As an average-sized junior high in LAREDO, Texas, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO educates 659 students from grades 6 through 8, run under HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - SOUTH TEXAS.
HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - SOUTH TEXAS comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,807 students; HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO is among them.
In terms of who attends, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%).
On the income-and-resources front, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO records 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. The state averages around 14.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Webb County (around 83%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.
After controlling for student poverty, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO sits in the top 10% of Texas schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.6%; actual is 49.8%, +16.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, census data for Webb County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,058 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 19% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO is one of 95 public schools in Webb County (combined enrollment of about 63,717 students).
The closest other public school is HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE - LAREDO, roughly 0.1 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 - LAREDO at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 55.9%.
HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO operates from a city-core location. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - LAREDO has ticked up 12%, going from 589 students in 2018 to 659 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 72% to 100%.
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