Horace Mann Elementary School

Horace Mann Elementary School is a primary school of moderately sized scale in Dayton, Ohio, operated by Dayton City, instructing 385 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Across the 26 schools in Dayton City (12,118 students total), Horace Mann Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Horace Mann Elementary School logs that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 35% Black, 10% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $66,139 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Horace Mann Elementary School is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 74,487 students).

Oakwood High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Horace Mann Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Horace Mann Elementary School has fell 11%, going from 434 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 61% to 46%.

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