Horace Mann Elementary School

Size

Of the 33 elementary schools in Springfield R-XII School District, Horace Mann Elementary School is the 9th largest, with 1.6% of the district's students. The 8 nearest elementary schools are a median 2 miles away and have a median of 384 students, so Horace Mann Elementary School is close to their typical size.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 3 with 70 students, and its smallest is grade 1 with 53, against an average of 63 per grade. This year grade 5 has 10% more students than kindergarten (66 against 60). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

White students are the largest group, at 66.1% of enrollment, about the same share as across Springfield R-XII (68.4%). Hispanic students are next, at 13.2%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

61.1% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, against 51.6% across Springfield R-XII and a median of 53.6% for Missouri elementary schools. 24.9% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Families apply for free or reduced-price meals, and eligibility depends on household income.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

Horace Mann Elementary School has 26.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.3 students per teacher. At the median Missouri elementary school ratio of 12.3, a school with 378 students would have about 30.7 teachers, so Horace Mann Elementary School has 4.2 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri elementary schools (12.3).

Location

NCES classifies its location as city, midsize, which means it is inside a principal city of 100,000 to 250,000 people. The nearest other elementary school is Cowden Elementary School, 1.5 miles away in the same district. There are 20 elementary schools within 5 miles and 47 within 10 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.