Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8

Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8 is one of the mid-tier primary schools in San Francisco, California, overseen by San Francisco Unified, with 586 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. That puts it 26% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 106 schools in San Francisco Unified (48,706 students total), Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8 reports that nearly all students (91%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, San Francisco County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Francisco County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8 falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.4%; this one comes in at 23.5%, -16.8 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Francisco County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $140,970 per year, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8 is one of 132 public schools in San Francisco County (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students).

Nearest neighbor: Chavez (Cesar) Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8 at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 20.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Buena Vista/ Horace Mann K-8 has showed little movement, going from 589 students in 2018 to 586 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 81% to 91% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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