Enrollment
190
Elementary
DISTRICT 316 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·INDIANA AREA SD·NCES 421215002322
Horace Mann Elementary School
205 S 5th St, Indiana, PA 15701 · (724) 463-8560 · Indiana County
GRADES 04–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL190 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
86 students
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 94 | 49% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 51% |
Student demographics
25%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Indiana Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
59.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.3pp since 2023
Math
69.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.2% | 69.1% |
| 2023-24 | 66.5% | 64.5% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
67.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Horace Mann Elementary School
Horace Mann Elementary School's state test result (67.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horace Mann Elementary School this school | 190 | 45.3% | 67.7% |
| Trafford Elementary School Trafford | 196 | 46.9% | 80.2% |
| West Newton Elementary School West Newton | 181 | 42.0% | 80.9% |
| Mt Vernon Elementary School McKeesport | 194 | 47.9% | 63.0% |
| Greenock Elementary School McKeesport | 173 | 50.3% | N/A |
| Northside Elementary School Mechanicsburg | 221 | 43.4% | 67.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Horace Mann Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Indiana County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.7% | #363 of 1,396 | #1 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.1% | #292 of 1,511 ▲ 74 | #1 of 12 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.2% | #460 of 1,511 ▼ 35 | #2 of 12 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 190 | #1,549 of 1,638 | #12 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.3% | #1,074 of 1,600 | #12 of 12 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
190
-4 (-2%) vs 2020
-57% since 1990-91, when it was 441
Student : Teacher
11.6:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 190 | 16.4 | 11.6:1 | 45% (86) |
| 2023-24 | 194 | 15.8 | 12.3:1 | 44% (86) |
| 2022-23 | 193 | 14.8 | 13.0:1 | 47% (90) |
| 2020-21 | 194 | 14 | 13.9:1 | 37% (71) |
| 2017-18 | 197 | 13.4 | 14.7:1 | 40% (78) |
| 2015-16 | 204 | 16 | 12.8:1 | 43% (88) |
| 2010-11 | 288 | 21 | 13.7:1 | 35% (100) |
| 2000-01 | 298 | 21 | 14.2:1 | 21% (64) |
| 1990-91 | 441 | 23 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Horace Mann Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (197 to 190); teachers up 22% (13.4 to 16.4).
About Horace Mann Elementary School
The public elementary school Horace Mann Elementary School is located in Indiana, Pennsylvania. The school had 190 students in grades 4 through 5 in 2024-25. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 443, so this school runs 57% smaller than that.
Indiana Area SD counts 6 schools and 2,803 students, including Horace Mann Elementary School.
Federal enrollment data show Horace Mann Elementary School is 86% White. The school is also 5% multiracial, 4% Black, and 3% Asian. The school's diversity index is 25%, meaning two students picked at random have a 25% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
At Horace Mann Elementary School, 16.4 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 11.6:1. That is lower than the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Roughly 45% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Indiana County is 21 points.
Horace Mann Elementary School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 75% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Horace Mann Elementary School scores 67.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 58.2%.
In Indiana County (population about 83,042), the median household income is $60,208, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 27% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. There are 22 public schools in Indiana County, enrolling about 8,470 students in all.
The closest public school, Indiana Area Junior High School, is about 0.4 miles from Horace Mann Elementary School. Other public schools within five miles: 6. On average proficiency, Horace Mann Elementary School is 2nd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Locale: Town: Distant. In NCES terms, the school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
In 2020-21, Horace Mann Elementary School enrolled 194; in 2024-25, 190. Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.9:1 in 2020-21, and 11.6:1 in 2024-25.
The Horace Mann Elementary School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Indiana County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
83,042
Census ACS
Median income
$60,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
22
8,470 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Indiana Area SD
- Indiana Area SHSHigh · 913 students
- Indiana Area Junior High SchoolMiddle · 628 students
- East Pike Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Ben Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 414 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 213 students
Other schools in Indiana
- Indiana Area SHSHigh · 913 students
- Indiana Area Junior High SchoolMiddle · 628 students
- East Pike Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
- Ben Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 414 students
- Eisenhower Elementary SchoolElementary · 213 students
- Indiana County Technology CenterHigh · 14 students
Other Horace Mann Elementary schools
23 other US public schools in 12 states are named Horace Mann Elementary. Horace Mann Elementary School is the 24th largest of the 24.
- Horace Mann Elementary SchoolNORTH BERGEN, NJ · 978 students
- Horace Mann ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 870 students
- Horace Mann ElementaryGlendale, CA · 672 students
- Horace Mann ElementaryBeverly Hills, CA · 578 students
- Horace Mann ElementaryHuntington, IN · 438 students
Nearby schools
- Indiana Area Junior High School0.4 mi · 628
- Indiana Area SHS0.8 mi · 913
- Eisenhower Elementary School1.2 mi · 213
- East Pike Elementary School1.2 mi · 445
- Indiana County Technology Center2.2 mi · 14
- Ben Franklin Elementary School2.4 mi · 414
Frequently asked questions
About Horace Mann Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Horace Mann Elementary School?
Horace Mann Elementary School enrolls approximately 190 students in grades 04-05.
What grades does Horace Mann Elementary School serve?
Horace Mann Elementary School serves grades 04-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Horace Mann Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Horace Mann Elementary School is approximately 11.6:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Horace Mann Elementary School?
At Horace Mann Elementary School, the student body is approximately 86% White, 1% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Horace Mann Elementary School?
Horace Mann Elementary School is overseen by Indiana Area SD in Indiana County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.