HSD will be closed for Memorial Day, May 27, 2013. School will reopen on May 28, 2013 beginning at 7:30 am. Please be on time. Have a safe and wonderful holiday.

Harmony School of Discovery had 7 winners. (There were 256 entries.) HSD students attended the award ceremony to receive their awards.

Three Bronze winners- Each student won a $4000 scholarship,9th Grade Haider Hassan, Leslie Rosales and Kamal Hussein 10th graders.

Two grand prize winners- Hasan Yacoub won an iPod Nano, 6th Grade Steven Do won IPAD.


Congratulations to all of the winners!!

HSD is very proud of our students and the help that they provided for this fund raiser. The following students won

Boys - Rylan Garza won a fifty dollar gift certificate.
Joshua Telfort - Won the KINDLE FIRE!!!!

Girls - Savannah Williett won a fifty dollar gift certificate.

Way to go Students!!!

The 9th and 10th graders had an amazaing opportunity to visit these colleges. The students shared their experiences and showed off their college shirts.

7th Grade HSD student Rylan will be competing in Ireland for Team America representing the United States. Rylan tested and promoted to a 1st degree Black Belt this past weekend. He has been competing in the State and National level for 7 years.
Rylan is ranked the #1 Junior BlackBelt in the State of Texas for 2012 -2013.

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TCSAAL State 6th-8th Grade Spelling Bee
State Spelling Bee competition

The following students participated in the Spelling Bee: Eathon Moon-Puente, Czar-Albert Atmosfera, Ilham Farehan ,Laura Fagbemi, Shehna Khalid, Wahibah Hannan, Maria Dorantes.
HSD students were in competition against 23 other students from different charter schools. HSD's students took the following places: Wahibah Hannan received second place, Laura Fagbemi received 4th place and Maria Dorantes received 5th place.Congratulations Spelling Bee Team.

Dear HSD Parents; Please review the attachments regarding No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. You may also review the Highly Qualified Teachers Summary Report which is included in the attachment. read more . . .

Newsweek has announced America's Best High Schools where seven Harmony schools have made into the list.

Harmony Science Academy - Bryan/College Station, Harmony School of Advancement (Houston), Harmony Science Academy Fort Worth, Harmony Science Academy (Houston), Harmony Science Academy El Paso, Harmony Science Academy Dallas, Harmony Science Academy-North Austin are the campuses that made into Newsweek's list.

Newsweek has also identified Top 25 Transformative High Schools in which four Harmony Schools are also featured.

HSA Bryan/College Station, HSA El Paso, HSA Houston, and HSA Dallas became America's 25 transformative schools who did the most with the least resources.

In 2011, two Harmony campuses were also named as the Miracle Schools by Newsweek.

Washington Post has announced its Most Challenging High Schools list of 2012. Four Harmony high schools made the Challenge Index and three of them in the top 100 out of 1900 schools in the list.

The Challenge Index of Washington Post ranks high schools since 1998 based on the student achievement on IB, AP, and college level tests (SAT, ACT, etc.) and graduation rates. The index score is the number of college-level tests given at a school in 2011 divided by the number of graduates that year. Also noted are the percentage of students who come from families that qualify for lunch subsidies (Subs. lunch) and the percentage of graduates who passed at least one college-level test during their high school career, called equity and excellence, (E&E). A (P) next to the school's name denotes a private school.

See the detailed list here.

A segment of the May 13 television news show 60 Minutes included references to Harmony Public Schools (HPS) of Texas that may have left some inaccurate impressions. Please note the following facts about Harmony Public Schools, all of which were shared with 60 Minutes before the show was broadcast: Read more at Harmony Public Schools and 60 Minutes: Setting the Record Straight

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From Superintendent Dr. Soner Tarim To the Harmony Public Schools Community: A disappointing article on charter schools in this week's New York Times attempts to put Harmony Public Schools in Texas in a context that is not accurate, necessitating this brief response. Many of us at Harmony Schools cooperated extensively with the Times on this story over the last several months, providing documents, interviews, tours and dozens of detailed responses to specific questions in good faith. But, as sometimes happens, the end result was not entirely what we had hoped. See the rest of Dr. Soner Tarim's response here: http://harmonytx.org/news/122/letter-to-stakeholders-on-ny-times-article/

Harmony School of Discovery 2008-2009 NCLB Report Card is available through the following link below.

Click here to see the NCLB Report Card .
Click here to see NCLB_2011_Campus_report card -.

It is the policy of the Harmony Science Academy Charter School to locate and identify any child who contacts or enrolls in the Charter School who may have a disability and be in need of special education and related services, regardless of the severity of the disability, in accordance with its procedures as reflected in the CHILD FIND legal framework of the Legal Framework for the Child-Centered Special Education Process, located at: http://framework.esc18.net/. read more...