Five Harmony schools in Austin spent $7,923 per student, about $800 below the statewide average and $1,600 below the average of the Austin Independent School District. Harmony Public Schools enjoys a AAA financial bond rating awarded by the state and has received numerous federal grants, such as the five-year $30 million Race to the Top grant in 2011. Management and operations Financial operations
The topics of choice include: Art, Cultures/Religions, Computers/Technology, English Language Arts, ESL/Foreign Languages, Health/Medical, Mathematics, Music, Personal Stories/Reflections, Places/Travel, Physical Education/Sports, Pop Culture, Science/Engineering, and Social Studies. The DICTCO project evaluates educational videos made by students presenting about their research or stories. Harmony's computer and English classes participate in DISTCO. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, for the expo to support their classmates with exhibits. Many Harmony campuses traveled to the George R. Harmony hosts and organizes I-SWEEEP (International Sustainable World Energy, Engineering & Environment Project), a global science fair where students travel from dozens of countries to showcase their projects. Also, Harmony School of Excellence achieved first place at Nationals in their rookie year and second place in their third year. Harmony Science Academy of Euless received an award as the 2010 Best School by the Fort Worth Regional Science and Engineering Fair only a year after it opened. Harmony is especially active in MathCounts, FIRST LEGO League (FLL), DISTCO (Digital Storytelling Contests) Science Fair, and Quiz Bowl. Harmony Public Schools students participate in a variety of competitions because of the school's emphasis on extracurricular activities. A Newsweek report in 2011 named two of the Harmony Schools "Miracle Schools".
News & World Report a 'Bronze' medal in 2009 and a 'Silver' Medal in 2010. Texas newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman, and the West University Examiner, commented favorably on the schools. In 2011 the Texas Education Agency (TEA) rated 21 of the 33 Harmony schools as "Exemplary" or "Recognized", while the remainder were "Acceptable". Įvery Harmony campus passed or exceeded the state ' s academic standards in 2016, with six of its campuses earning all seven available academic distinctions and two of its districts earning the post-secondary readiness distinction. This motivates students to master complex academic concepts and gives them practice at lifelong skills, such as public speaking and communications. Its project-based learning method and STEM SOS model requires students to complete multiple hands-on projects per year in select fields, then present their findings to the community. Harmony Public Schools works to break down the educational barriers for low-socioeconomic students in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. Now at seventeen years and 54 campuses, Harmony has reached its goal of operating fifty schools and educating 35,000 students by 2020. Within ten years, Harmony expanded to thirty-three campuses across the state, reaching as far as El Paso and Dallas. Several Turkish-American graduate students, wrote a charter school proposal and received approval from the Texas Education Agency in April 2000, months before the first campus opened in August. The first Harmony school opened in Houston in 2000. In 2015, Harmony managed charter schools enrolling 34,203 students. The headquarters are located in Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown), Houston, Texas, Harmony Public Schools is the largest charter management organization in Texas, with sixty campuses serving students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Harmony Public Schools headquarters in Houston
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