Horace Mann Elementary School (Oak Park, Illinois)

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Official name	Horace Mann Elementary School
Principal	Nimisha Kumar
School type	Public
Operated by	Oak Park Elementary School District
Location	921 North Kenilworth Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, United States
Grades	K-5
Information current as of	Year 2005

This article is about a school in Oak Park, Illinois. For others, see Horace Mann School (disambiguation).

Horace Mann Elementary School is an American primary school in Oak Park, Illinois. Operated by Oak Park Elementary School District, the school teaches kindergarten to fifth grade and had 420 students and a pupil/teacher ratio of 13.8 in 2003.[1] Horace Mann ranked 68th (top 5%) in the Chicago Tribune's 2005 round-up of Chicago's 1,730 grade schools.[2]

The school's main hallway features a large Works Progress Administration mural entitled "Community Life in the 19th Century," by Ralph Hendricksen and Emmanuel Jacobson, probably completed in 1936. The school also includes a library and a technology center. Horace Mann owns a large property called Field Park, which includes a blacktop, three playgrounds, and a center at which students play football and other after-school activities.

The school is one of many named after Horace Mann (1796–1859), a famous and influential education reformer, abolitionist, and congressman.

As reported in Time Magazine, Horace Mann students responded to the September 11, 2001 attacks by organizing the "Moving Us Forward" program, which consisted of morning runs to raise money for charity. The students cumulatively ran more than the 1,000 mile distance between their school and ground zero. [3]

[edit] References

Art's Great Pageant: The Wpa Murals Of The '30s Began As A Form Of Welfare But Survive As Lively Milestones Of Our History, Chicago Tribune, December 10, 1995
Margot Roosevelt, Coping With Crisis: In school, at home and in their dreams, kids around the U.S. are dealing with the aftermath of 11 September, Time Magazine, 29 October 2001.