Horace Mann Elementary

Horace Mann Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community in Beverly Hills, California, overseen by Beverly Hills Unified. The school instructs 578 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Horace Mann Elementary sits 24% larger than that benchmark.

Within Beverly Hills Unified, which oversees 5 schools and 3,073 students, Horace Mann Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Horace Mann Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 16% multiracial, 13% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Horace Mann Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Horace Mann Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of +5.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate median household income runs about $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Horace Mann Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

The closest other public school is Beverly Vista Middle, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Horace Mann Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 59.5%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Horace Mann Elementary's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 553 (now 578). White enrollment moved from 62% to 55% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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