The beat goes on for Harmony Magnet Academy.
The school was again rated as one of the nation's top high schools by U.S. News and World Report in its annual rankings.
And again Harmony was ranked as Tulare County's No. 1 school. Harmony has consistently been ranked as one of the nation's top schools and as the county's top school for several years now.
“I am very proud of our staff and teaching faculty for their commitment to excellence,” Harmony principal Jeff Brown said. “I am pleased that we are once again recognized both nationally and locally for student achievement.”
For the 2025-2026 school year, U.S. News and World Report ranks Harmony No. 871 out of about 18,000 high schools across the nation. That again places Harmony in the top five percent of all public highs schools in the nation, another rank Harmony has been able to maintain for a number of years.
Out of nearly 3,000 charter high schools in the nation, Harmony was also ranked No. 157, placing it among the top five percent of all the nation's charter high schools as well. And Harmony was ranked No. 113 out of 2,586 of California's high schools, placing it in the top five percent of the high schools in the state.
Harmony consistently receives a score of above 95 out of 100 from U.S. News and World Report and this year was no different as the school received a rating of 95.13.
U.S. News stated its rankings of virtually all the nation's public schools provides a numerical ranking based on multiple sources of objective data.
The rankings are based in part of how schools educate all students from different social and economic backgrounds. The rankings are also based on schools who have students who demonstrate outstanding outcomes above expectations in math, reading and state science state assessments and earned qualifying scores in a variety of college-level exams.
Schools were rated based on weighted scores in six categories with an overall score of 100 possible. Thirty percent of the score is based on college readiness. Ten percent is based on the school's curriculum being a college curriculum.
Twenty percent is based on state assessment scores. When it comes to educating students from different social and economic backgrounds, 10 percent of the score is based on underserved students' performance and the graduation rate also figures into the score.
Sixty percent of Harmony's students have taken at least one Advance Placement exam, 54 percent of the school's students are rated proficient in math and 93 percent of the school's students are rated proficient in reading. The school also had a 98 percent graduation rate. Harmony's minority enrollment is 80 percent.
When it comes to its state assessment performance rank Harmony continues to rank high where it has been in recent years at No. 32 in the state and No. 363 in the nation.
Harmony was the beginning of what has become the Porterville Unified School District's Pathways program, which now has 14 Pathways.
“I would like to thank PUSD for their continuous effort in supporting programs for students, which allow them to pursue excellence,” Brown said. “I would also like to thank the PUSD Pathways office for their direction and support in maintaining a college and career ready culture.
“Finally, I would give our students all the credit, for their focus on maintaining a rigorous academic schedule and their grit to see it through. I believe most of our students have an expectation of being successful and are thrilled when they see the fruits of their labor come true.”
Harmony has also won numerous other awards for academic achievement. For four straight years now Harmony has been recognized as a Distinguished School by Project Lead The Way, a nonprofit organization that serves millions of PreK-12 students and teachers in more than 12,200 schools across the U.S.
Harmony's Performing Arts and Engineer Academies have also bee named as Distinguished Schools by NAF, a national education program that operates and assesses academies across the nation.