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HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-PFLUGERVILLE
Test scores
STAAR 2023-24 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveWhat this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 52 and 42. Reading scores are up about 35 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 41 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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-PFLUGERVILLE
HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-PFLUGERVILLE is a four-year high school of mid-sized scale in PFLUGERVILLE, Texas, overseen by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - CENTRAL TEXAS, enrolling 794 students in grades 6 through 12.
HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - CENTRAL TEXAS runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,647 students. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-PFLUGERVILLE is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-PFLUGERVILLE records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 20% White, 14% Black, 13% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 33% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Travis County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-PFLUGERVILLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.4%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Travis County) reports that median household income runs about $99,611, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Travis County's 333 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,706 students), HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-PFLUGERVILLE is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is VALOR NORTH AUSTIN, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-PFLUGERVILLE. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-PFLUGERVILLE ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 36.8%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-PFLUGERVILLE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 949 students in 2018 compared to 794 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 9% to 14% across the same window.
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