HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND

HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND, a reasonably sized elementary campus in SUGAR LAND, Texas, operated by HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - HOUSTON WEST, enrolls 729 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 40% bigger than the typical public school in Texas, which averages around 519 students.

HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS - HOUSTON WEST runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 6,541 students. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND is one of those campuses.

Demographically, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND lists that the largest single group is Asian at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 23% Black, 13% Hispanic, 11% White. By comparison, Fort Bend County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fort Bend County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 47.3%; this one delivers 80.1%, a residual of +32.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Fort Bend County indicate median household income runs about $114,041, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Fort Bend County's 217 public schools (combined enrollment of about 191,372 students), HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND is one campus in the mix.

BARRINGTON PLACE EL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND. On composite proficiency, HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND operates from a city-core location. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. HARMONY SCIENCE ACADEMY-SUGAR LAND's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 774 (now 729). The Asian share of enrollment expanded from 41% to 50% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 today.

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