Horace Mann Elementary

Located at 2485 Waterworks Road, in Huntington, Indiana, Horace Mann Elementary is a mid-sized primary school that works with 438 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Huntington Co Com Sch Corp.

Across the 10 schools in Huntington Co Com Sch Corp (4,874 students total), Horace Mann Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Horace Mann Elementary logs that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 65% 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 above Huntington County's rate of about 48%.

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 29.8%, the actual is 34.5%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Huntington County) logs that median household earnings sit near $66,301, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Huntington County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,874 students), of which Horace Mann Elementary is one.

Riverview School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Horace Mann Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Horace Mann Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

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