HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - PLANO

HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - PLANO is one of the mid-sized primary schools in PLANO, Texas, one of the schools within HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS, with 627 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 21% above the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

Across the 16 schools in HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - NORTH TEXAS (11,042 students total), HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - PLANO accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - PLANO shows that 29% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 24% White, 22% Asian, 20% Hispanic. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - PLANO has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.1:1 average. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Collin County runs at roughly 30%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - PLANO sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 59.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Collin County) logs that median household income runs about $121,600, about 56% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - PLANO is one of 338 public schools in Collin County (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students).

Nearest neighbor: BEATY EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - PLANO comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 48.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - PLANO operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY - PLANO's enrollment has grew 35% since 2018, when it stood at 464 (now 627). Hispanic enrollment moved from 32% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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