History of Horace Mann School

Founded in 1869, the Horace Mann School for the Deaf is the oldest public day school for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing in the United States and has a long, evolving history of providing quality education for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students. Horace Mann School recognizes that communities of Deaf people share distinctive cultural and linguistic identities and that all Deaf and Hard of Hearing students have a right to appropriate learning environments and instructional methodologies that reflect individual learning styles that enable them to achieve their fullest potential.

📚 Archived HMS Yearbooks