A special thanks to all the parents, volunteers, students, and staff for making the 4th Annual Harmony s Got Talent Show a huge success. We had an amazing show packed with superbly talented students and staff. The winners were 1st place, Kindergartener Carmen Chaparro for singing Annie’s “Maybe,” 2nd place, 5th grader Isabella Cirello for singing “Mamma Mia,” and 3rd place, 8th grader Derek Hartwig for performing the National Anthem on his saxophone. Congratulations to our winners, we are already looking forward to next year!

Dear Parents,

Harmony Public Schools arrange Summer Leadership Camp annually for the 6-11th grades eligible students.
This year we willl be holding our camp at YMCA Camp Carter in June 1-9th, 2013.

Boys: June 1-5th
Girls: June 5-9th
Fee: $300

http://www.ymcafw.org/locations/camp-carter.aspx

The students need to return their signed permission slips, medical release and liability forms by Friday, May 17th, 2013. The permission slips and payments are accepted at the front office.
Since we will have limited place for each campus, it s going to be first-come-first-serve basis!
Event cost includes only meals at the camp, transportation and accommodation fee!
Any meals during the travelling are excluded!

In case of unexpected situations, please call (915) 757 29 29 (Front office) to notify us of your lateness and feel free to call anytime anything about the program from this number.
We will be very glad to see our students in this entertaining event. Parent approval may not be obtained by phone.

Click Here for Permission Slip

Dear parents/students,

6th -11th grade spring semester finals will be held according to the schedule below.

May 22, 2013:

8:00 am - 9:30 am : ELAR
9:40 am - 11:10 am : Science

May 23, 2013:

8:00 am - 9:30 am : Social Studies
9:40 am - 11:10 am : Math

Click Here for Academic Calendar

On Saturday, March 9, Harmony School Of Innovation-El Paso hosted its first annual STEM Festival and Open House. Hundreds of students, parents, and teachers spent months prepping for this highly successful, inaugural event. Students presented their STEM projects and science demonstrations, Spanish, Turkish and German language students shared cultural foods, English and social studies students displayed class projects, and more! Prospective students and families participated in an Open House information session to learn more about Harmony Public Schools and the enrollment process. Many eager students were on hand to learn more about the opportunity to join our student body. It was a wonderful and educational event and a good time was had by all!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE ROBOTICS TEAMS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE JUNIOR FLL AND FLL COMPETITIONS AT UTEP ON SATURDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2013. THESE ARE THE WINING TEAMS AND THEIR AWARDS:
JRFLL
TEAM THE MIGHTY MOUSTACHES-BEST MODEL AWARD
TEAM ALPHA PACK-BEST PRESENTATION AWARD
FLL
TEAM TOXIC ROBOTS-SECOND PLACE AWARD ON INSPIRATION
TEAM IMMEDIATE-FIRST PLACE AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE SOLUTION
TEAM SUPER SENIORS-SECOND PLACE AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE SOLUTION
TEAM BOBS BUILDERS-12191-SECOND PLACE AWARD IN PROJECT
TEAM SOLUTION BOTS-11839-SECOND PLACE IN STRATEGY
THANK YOU PARENTS, TEACHERS, MENTORS AND COACHES WHO HELPED OUR TEAMS SUCCEED. WE ARE VERY PROUD TO SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL ROBOTICS TEAMS! KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK!

Dear Parents,
You may access the 2012 NCLB distrcit/campus report cards from the links below.

NCLB Parent Letter (English)

NCLB Parent Letter (Spanish)

NCLB Report for HSI-El Paso Campus 2011-2012

NCLB Report for HSA-El Paso District 2011-2012

On February 9th, our school participated regional Mathcounts competition in El Paso. All of our Mathcounts team did a great job and one of our student, Benjamin Miguel got the first place in Countdown round. Also he is one of the top three individuals who is going to represent El Paso in the state competition in Austin. Congratulations to all students!!!

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/

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...