Summary
Horace Mann Elementary serves 293 students in grades K–5 in San Jose, within San Jose Unified. Its test results are well below district and state levels in all three tested subjects, making low proficiency—especially in science—the school’s most important concern.
Compared with the state and district in 2025–2026, Horace Mann was behind by 33 and 34 percentage points in ELA, 26 and 30 points in math, and 30 and 35 points in science. Among seven nearby San Jose Unified schools with results that year, Horace Mann ranked fifth of eight in ELA, fourth in math, and second-lowest in science; its science result was 7 points below the nearby-school average. Math is its strongest subject relative to those benchmarks, but grade results vary sharply: third-grade math was 26%, ranking second among those schools, while fifth-grade math was just 2%, higher only than Grant Elementary. Fifth-grade science was also near the bottom locally, just above Lowell Elementary.
Results have generally declined: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, ELA fell 11 percentage points, math fell 4, and science fell 10, while the gaps with the state widened by 14, 7, and 16 points, respectively. Horace Mann Elementary ranks 5,664th of 5,804 statewide on SchoolDigger, at the 2nd percentile with 0 stars. SchoolDigger’s Male Students subgroup percentile fell from 26 in 2023–2024 to 3 in 2025–2026, a sharp decline in its measured standing for that group; the overall percentile was 2 in 2025–2026. In 2024–2025, the school had 20.4 students per teacher, higher than all but one nearby same-district school, and 74% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Chronic absenteeism improved from 51% in 2021–2022 to 30% in 2025–2026, but remained above the district’s 22% and the state’s 18%.
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