Horace Mann Community School

Horace Mann Community School is one of the expansive elementary-level communitys in BAYONNE, New Jersey, part of Bayonne School District, with 712 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 76% larger than the state mean of about 405.

Within Bayonne School District, which oversees 13 schools and 10,325 students, Horace Mann Community School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Horace Mann Community School records that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 11% Black, 11% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 32%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.4:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 55% of students at Horace Mann Community School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Hudson County's rate of about 68%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Horace Mann Community School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.1%; this one delivers 39.8%.

Zooming out to the county, Hudson County reports that median household income runs about $91,795, roughly 49% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hudson County's 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), Horace Mann Community School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Walter F. Robinson Community School, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Horace Mann Community School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Horace Mann Community School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 39.6%.

Horace Mann Community School operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 24%: 573 students in 2018 compared to 712 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 32% to 20%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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