Bluff Heights Neighborhood Association

Horace Mann Elementary School

Quality instruction for kindergarten through 5th grade

Horace Mann Elementary School is on a traditional school calendar and offers a quality instruction program for kindergarten through fifth grade students. Located in the southeast section of Long Beach, Mann School serves approximately 455 pupils, with approximately 50% of these students coming from other Long Beach areas. The student population is approximately 83% minority and 32% language minority.

Mann is a "moving" school. In the past two years, Mann's cumulative ITAS scores have increased 90 percentile points. A few year ago, student performance was collectively below the district average, but for the past two years, student performance has been above the district average in the majority of areas tested. In 1996-97, Mann ITAS trend scores were at or above district average in nine areas and below average in only four areas.Because of our impressive improvement in student achievement, Mann school is one of only seven schools in the LBUSD to qualify for the Title I Achieving School Award. After an in-depth study of the (CAS)2 ITAS and performance scores, the PQR report of finding, the internal compliance review recommendation, the teacher needs assessment and parental input at council meeting, it is the consensus of the staff and parent advisory committees that it would be in the best interest of Mann students of continue to focus our improvement efforts in the area of Language Arts.