Horace Mann Elementary

Horace Mann Elementary is one of the moderately sized primary schools in Redmond, Washington, operated by Lake Washington School District, with 387 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Lake Washington School District comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 30,986 students; Horace Mann Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Horace Mann Elementary logs that 53% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 29% White, 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, King County as a whole is about 21% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Horace Mann Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.2%, the actual is 85.2%, a residual of +8.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for King County shows median household earnings sit near $124,746, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Horace Mann Elementary is one of 544 public schools in King County (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students).

Redmond Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Horace Mann Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Horace Mann Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 70.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Horace Mann Elementary has ticked down 16%, going from 460 students in 2018 to 387 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 57% to 29% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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