Horace Mann Elementary

Located at 2710 Niles St., in Bakersfield, California, Horace Mann Elementary is a high-enrollment primary school that serves 870 students (grades K through 6), part of Bakersfield City. That puts it 87% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 44 schools in Bakersfield City (28,365 students total), Horace Mann Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Horace Mann Elementary lists that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% Black, 3% White. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Horace Mann Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Kern County's rate of about 76%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Horace Mann Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.7%, the actual is 21.8%, a residual of -0.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Horace Mann Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Ramon Garza Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Horace Mann Elementary. On composite proficiency, Horace Mann Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 18.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Horace Mann Elementary's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 851 (now 870).

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