Horace Mann Elementary School

Located at 1215 W Clifton Blvd, in Lakewood, Ohio, Horace Mann Elementary School is a close-knit elementary campus that enrolls 269 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Lakewood City. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 404.

Lakewood City runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 4,369 students. Horace Mann Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Horace Mann Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 18% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Cuyahoga County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Horace Mann Elementary School lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average. Around 36% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Cuyahoga County's rate of about 27%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Horace Mann Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.0%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of -6.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Cuyahoga County indicate the typical household earns roughly $64,468 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Cuyahoga County runs 352 public schools (combined enrollment of about 155,924 students), of which Horace Mann Elementary School is one.

Lincoln Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Horace Mann Elementary School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 86.2%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Horace Mann Elementary School's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 312 (now 269). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 80% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

On allk12, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.