Horace Mann Elementary
"Home of the Eagles"

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Mann Elementary was first built in 1964 with 10 classrooms and a multipurpose room. Additional classrooms, teacher workroom, restrooms and a Learning Center with computer lab have been added since 1965. In 2000 modular Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) classrooms were added. In the winter of 2010, they were moved to the new ECSE complex across town. We will miss them! We are now enjoying the air-conditioning that was installed in the entire school! Thank you Springfield and SPS!

Mann Elementary is currently the home to approximately 410 children from Kindergarten through Fifth grade. Our Principal is Ms. Teri Peterson. Horace Mann's colors are Blue and Gold. We had a contest and our mascot is an Eagle named "Eagleton".

Horace Mann Elementary has a dedicated faculty of professional educators who work diligently toward the goal of improved student achievement and performance in a positive and pleasant school environment. This mission is based on the belief that every child is uniquely important. Given proper instruction, assistance and support, each student can learn and will succeed.  Parent involvement, especially by way of a strong PTA unit and the accompanying volunteer program, is an indispensable part of the remarkable success of the school.  Every child is encouraged to "Soar with the Eagle" in setting high aspirations and goals for life!

Our "H M" Picture!

Did You Know ?

Horace Mann is named after Horace Mann, known as the Father of Public Education.

The American educator Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts, on the 4th of May 1796. His childhood and youth were passed in poverty, and his health was early impaired by hard manual labor. His only means for gratifying his eager desire for books was the small library founded in his native town by Benjamin Franklin. At the age of twenty he was fitted, in six months, for college, and in 1819, graduated with highest honors, from the Brown University at Providence, Rhode Island, having devoted himself to his studies. 

He then studied law for a short time at Wrentham, Massachusetts and in 1823 was admitted to the Norfolk, Massachusetts bar. For fourteen years he devoted himself, with great success, to his profession. Meanwhile he served, with conspicuous ability, first in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and then in the Massachusetts Senate, for the last two years as president.

It was not until he became secretary (1837) of the newly created Board of Education of Massachusetts, that be began the work which was soon to place him in the foremost rank of American educators. He held this position till 1848, and worked with a remarkable intensity -- holding teachers' conventions, delivering numerous lectures and addresses, carrying on an extensive correspondence, introducing numerous reforms and planning and inaugurating the Massachusetts normal school system. 

The practical result of his work was the virtual revolutionizing of the common school system of Massachusetts, and indirectly of the common school systems of other states.