Horace Mann

ABOUT MANN
Address: 687 Watertown St.,
Newtonville, MA 02460
Phone: 617-559-9510
Fax: 617-559-2004
Grades: K to 5
Principal: Joseph Russo
Secretary: Barbara Coffey
Total students: 349
Total faculty: 25.5
Student/teacher ratio: 14 to 1
Web links: Official site
Horace Mann PTO

Horace-Mann School is one of the 15 public elementaries in Newton. Its approximately 350 students come mostly from the Newtonville, West Newton, and Nonantum neighborhoods.

After 5th grade, Horace Mann students go to Day Middle School and then to Newton North High School.

Horace Mann opened in 1965, making it the second-youngest of Newton's elementaries, after Burr. Major alterations to the building were last made in 2001. It has two modular, add-on classrooms as well. School officials consider the tiny rooms available for administrators and the school nurse to be the most inadequate in the Newton elementary system.

A study conducted for the School Committee in 2007 found Horace Mann overcrowded by 42 students, though the same study projected enrollment would fall by 16 students in the next five years.

The school is named for famed education reformer Horace Mann, a native of Massachusetts often considered the father of American public education.