HORACE MANN ELEM.

HORACE MANN ELEM., a moderately sized elementary campus in SPRINGFIELD, Missouri, part of SPRINGFIELD R-XII, teaches 378 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

SPRINGFIELD R-XII runs 54 schools in total, collectively educating 24,450 students. HORACE MANN ELEM. is one of those campuses.

Demographically, HORACE MANN ELEM. logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Black. By comparison, Greene County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, HORACE MANN ELEM. has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. The state averages around 12.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 61% of students at HORACE MANN ELEM. qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Greene County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, HORACE MANN ELEM. tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Greene County) shows that median household earnings sit near $61,479, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. HORACE MANN ELEM. is one of 97 public schools in Greene County (combined enrollment of about 42,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: KICKAPOO HIGH, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), HORACE MANN ELEM. ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 53.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HORACE MANN ELEM. has contracted 4%, going from 392 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 66% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

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