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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