Horace Mann Elementary

Set in Oakland, California, Horace Mann Elementary is a cozy elementary school, operated by Oakland Unified. It works with 200 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 57% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Oakland Unified comprises 84 schools with combined enrollment of 33,973 students; Horace Mann Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Horace Mann Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Black, 11% White, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 98% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Horace Mann Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.1%; this one delivers 9.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate median household income runs about $129,367, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Horace Mann Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fremont High, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Horace Mann Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 18.7%.

Horace Mann Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Horace Mann Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 42% since 2018, when it stood at 345 (now 200). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 30% to 18%. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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