Horace Mann UCLA Community

Horace Mann UCLA Community, a small high school in Los Angeles, California, part of Los Angeles Unified, enrolls 440 students, covering grades 6 through 12. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Horace Mann UCLA Community is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Horace Mann UCLA Community logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 44% Black, 3% multiracial. Compared to Los Angeles County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Horace Mann UCLA Community reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Horace Mann UCLA Community falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 22.9%; this one comes in at 7.5%, -15.4 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) shows that median household earnings sit near $90,112, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Horace Mann UCLA Community is one.

Seventy-Fourth Street 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 UCLA Community. On composite proficiency, Horace Mann UCLA Community comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.5%.

Horace Mann UCLA Community operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Horace Mann UCLA Community's enrollment has rose 12% since 2018, when it stood at 394 (now 440). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 52% to 44%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.