Horace Mann

Horace Mann is one of the intimate elementary schools in Melrose, Massachusetts, part of Melrose, with 254 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 33% leaner than typical.

Melrose comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 3,815 students; Horace Mann is among them.

Demographically, Horace Mann reports that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Horace Mann higher than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, Middlesex County reports that the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Middlesex County's 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), Horace Mann is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Early Childhood Center, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Horace Mann.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Horace Mann's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 281 (now 254). Over the same period, the White share declined from 90% to 83%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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