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HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - ODESSA
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 33 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 28 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 - ODESSA
Set in ODESSA, Texas, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - ODESSA is a medium-sized primary school, run under HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - WEST TEXAS. It enrolls 541 students across grades K through 8.
HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - WEST TEXAS comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 5,687 students; HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - ODESSA is among them.
On demographics, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - ODESSA logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 75%; the rest is composed of 15% White, 5% Black, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.
Looking at school resources, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - ODESSA logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - ODESSA sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.8%; this one delivers 50.8%.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Ector County shows median household income runs about $71,536, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ector County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,123 students), of which HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - ODESSA is one.
EL MAGNET AT REAGAN EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - ODESSA ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.9%.
The school occupies a metropolitan site. As a public charter, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - ODESSA runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
Trend over the last 7 years. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - ODESSA's enrollment has expanded 11% since 2018, when it stood at 488 (now 541). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 65% to 75% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 in 2025.
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