Sugar Land, Texas – Liberty Mutual Insurance and Harmony School of Science Sugar Land High School are sending a powerful message to their classmates and community in preparation of the June 1st Summer break: drinking and driving is a deadly combination.

To heighten awareness of this ever-present threat in Houston, Texas and surrounding areas and throughout the country, Liberty Mutual is providing Harmony School of Science Sugar Land with a crashed vehicle for a safety demonstration for freshman and sophomores at the high school on May 22, 2013, beginning at 11:00 a.m.. The program will feature a real-life depiction of the dangers of drinking and driving, and the roles of the Sugar Land Police Department and Sugar Land Fire Department while responding to car crash involiving a drunken driver

HSS-High invites all parents, relatives, and friends to participate in our annual Career Day on Wednesday May 22, 2013 from 8:00-11:00am. During this time period, professionals will go classroom to classroom to introduce their career field to students, allowing them increased and personal exposure to the variety of occupational options that lay before them. People interested in participating should sign up via our Google Document and/or contact Ms. Tran via email atran@harmonytx.org. read more . . .

Mr. Carnley's Art students were tasked with creating a poster to symbolize current issues that face our society. Posters will be displayed in the gymnasium until Friday May 17th. Please take a moment to vote for your favorite!

Students are able to vote once daily.Any votes found to have incorrect name/grade information will be voided. read more . . .

We would like to recognize the dedication and hard work of its students, parents, faculty, staff, and administration.

Recently, the Children at Risk organization released its 2013 ratings. Children at Risk is an advocacy organization that was designed in 2006 to be a tool to parents, students, campuses, and districts on how each campus performs in relation to other campuses. Children at Risk rankings have proven to be instrumental in generating conversations between educators and the public on ways to improve the public education system. Eligible Elementary, Middle, and High Schools are ranked on a variety of variables as pertaining to their grade levels. The Middle School variables are the following:

STAAR Advanced Reading (10%)
STAAR Advanced Math (10%)
Attendance Rate (15%)
Retention Rate, Grade 7 (5%)
Retention Rate, Grade 8 (5%)
Percent Economically Disadvantaged (25%)
Reading Gain/Loss (15%)

Because of your determination for excellence, we have received the designation of Second Best Middle School in Houston and Fifth Best Middle School in Texas.

While the ratings are determined by multiple factors, the end result is the same: because of our teachers, because of our staff, because of our administration, because of our parents and, most of all, because of our students, Harmony School of Science – High School is one of the best schools in the state of Texas!

Thank you for your continued support and for partnering with us in your child’s education.

HSS Sugar Land High Administration

Dear 9th and 10th Grade Parents,

The HSS Sugar Land High College Guidance Counselor Mr. Alptekin Genc has begun Individual Graduation Plan (IGP) meetings with our current 9th and 10th grade students and parents. We are excited to share our new course selection guide with you and guide you and your student in exploring their choices and making educated decisions. Below is a brief summary of what an IGP is?

What is an Individual Graduation Plan?
It’s a road map to your future! The IGP includes information on your postsecondary goals, career cluster of choice, courses required for graduation, and electives that coordinate with your career goals.

4 Steps to follow before you schedule your IGP:

1. Assess your strengths, weaknesses, likes, and dislikes.


2. Review the attached course selection guide closely and make your selections.


3. Research career opportunities to learn more about yourself and a list of careers you might want to pursue.


4. Talk about your options with your parents and make a tentative plan with graduation plan form before the IGP meeting to discuss with the counselor.

Spring Final Exams will be held the week of May 27, 2013. Finals will take place on Wednesday May 28 and Thursday May 29 with two finals being held each day. Foreign language and elective finals will be held in class during the first 3 weeks of May.

HSS Sugar Land High Administration

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...