Summary:
The city of Beverly Hills, Texas has only one public charter high school serving grades 6-12, the Harmony School of Innovation - Waco. This school is part of the Harmony Public Schools - North Texas district, which is ranked 319 out of 961 districts in the state and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.
While Harmony School of Innovation - Waco has a high 4-year graduation rate of 97.8% and a low dropout rate of 0.4%, its STAAR test scores are generally below the district and state averages across various subjects and grade levels. The school's strongest performance is in U.S. History, where 66.15% of students scored proficient or better, compared to 81.67% for the district and 67.94% for the state. However, in 6th grade reading, the school scored 30.77% proficient or better, compared to 56.07% for the district and 54.21% for the state.
The school serves a relatively low-income student population, with 83% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch. Despite this, the school's per-student spending for the 2020-2021 school year was $9,084, and the student-teacher ratio for the 2023-2024 school year is 15.6, which is slightly higher than the state average. These factors suggest that the school has adequate resources and staffing to support student learning, but there is still room for improvement in academic achievement as measured by standardized test scores.
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