NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools TX

Best-Resourced Schools in Harker Heights, TX

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7 public K-12 schools in Harker Heights from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
6,986
Students
42.4/100
Avg Resource Index
16:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Harker Heights has more public-school enrollment than 69% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Harker Heights's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Harker Heights's 7 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 14-point gap between Union Grove Middle and Harker Heights H S shows the range hidden by Harker Heights's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 31%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
57th percentile
Teacher staffing
43rd percentile

Harker Heights H S accounts for 31.4% of all Harker Heights public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Harker Heights-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Harker Heights school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities

Harker Heights school enrollment ranges from 585 students (lowest) to 2,192 students (highest), a spread of 1,607 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Harker Heights operates one school district — a single-district system

Harker Heights's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Harker Heights student-teacher ratio is 16.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Harker Heights is typically wider than the Harker Heights-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Union Grove Middle 50
2. Mountain View El 48
3. Eastern Hills Middle 43
4. Nolan Middle 42
5. Harker Heights El 41
6. Skipcha El 37
7. Harker Heights H S 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Harker Heights

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Skipcha El 75.8/100
  2. 2 Harker Heights H S 75.4/100
  3. 3 Mountain View El 74.7/100
  4. 4 Union Grove Middle 74.5/100
  5. 5 Nolan Middle 74.2/100

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Which Harker Heights school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Union Grove Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Harker Heights schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Harker Heights, TX? ▼

Harker Heights has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 6,986 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.