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 | name                    = Horace Mann Arts and Science Magnet Middle School
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 | motto                   = one school one goal student success!
 | established             = 1955
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 | type                    = [[Public school (government funded)|Public]]
 | principal               = Mr. Duane Clayton
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 | teaching_staff          = 62.09 (FTE)<ref name=NCES/>
 | ratio                   = 12.22<ref name=NCES/>
 | enrollment              = 759 (2018-19)<ref name=NCES>{{cite web|url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&DistrictID=0509000&SchoolPageNum=2&ID=050900000621|title=MANN MAGNET MIDDLE SCHOOL|publisher=National Center for Education Statistics|accessdate=May 11, 2020}}</ref>
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 | grades                  = 6-8
 | streetaddress           = 1000 E. Roosevelt Rd. 72206
 | city                    = [[Little Rock, Arkansas]]
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 | country                 = United States
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 | mascot                  = Bearcat
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'''Horace Mann Arts and Sciences Magnet Middle School''' is a [[Magnet school|magnet]] [[middle school]] located in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]], United States. It is part of the [[Little Rock School District]]. The school was named after educational reformer and Congressman [[Horace Mann]].

==History==
The school was formerly known as the '''Horace Mann High School''' and the '''Horace Mann Junior High School'''. It was opened as an all-[[negro]] high school in 1955. In 1958 the [[United States district court]] declared it to be equal to the school designed for white high school children.<ref name=":0">[https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-133684488 "From birth to the bench: a quiet but persuasive leader.(New York Court of Appeals judge George Bundy-Smith)"], [[Albany Law Review]], March 22, 2005</ref>

Interior Design Associates won a gold award for design excellence for its renovation of the school that was completed in 2004.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110516222626/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-124698799.html "Interior Design Associates (IDeA) of Little Rock won two gold awards for design excellence at a competition held recently at Natchez, Miss.(Business Briefs)(from American Society of Interior Designers)"], [[Arkansas Business]], November 1, 2004</ref>

==Notable alumni==
* [[Chelsea Clinton]]<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130810145800/http://www.hillary-rodham-clinton.org/chelsea_clinton.html " Chelsea Clinton"]}}, hillary-rodham-clinton.org, ''accessed December 13, 2007</ref>
* [[Richard Mays]], politician and judge<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dumas |first=Ernest |date=2020-09-03 |title=Richard Leon Mays (1943–) |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/richard-leon-mays-8967/ |access-date=2023-12-26 |website=[[Encyclopedia of Arkansas]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Frank Scott Jr.]], politician<ref>{{cite web|last=Hall |first=Rebekah |url=https://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/frank-scott-jr-the-unifier/Content?oid=23278599 |title=Frank Scott Jr.: the unifier &#124; Cover Stories &#124; Arkansas news, politics, opinion, restaurants, music, movies and art |publisher=Arktimes.com |date= |accessdate=December 5, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Jefferson Thomas]], activist<ref>{{cite web|title=Jefferson A. Thomas|publisher=The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture|url=http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=728|date=2006-11-16}}</ref>
* Melba Pattillo Beals, activist<ref name=":0" />

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070102092616/http://www.lrsd.org/schoolindex.cfm?sccode=3 Official website]
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