18 public K-12 schools in Mount Vernon from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mount Vernon has more public-school enrollment than 70% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mount Vernon lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.
10 of Mount Vernon's 18 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.
The 30-point gap between Rebecca Turner Elementary School and Mount Vernon Steam Academy shows the range hidden by Mount Vernon's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.
Mount Vernon school enrollment ranges from 97 students (lowest) to 1,062 students (highest), a spread of 965 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
11% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Rebecca Turner Elementary School | 62 |
| 2. | Hamilton School | 57 |
| 3. | Mount Vernon Honor Academy | 56 |
| 4. | Grimes School | 55 |
| 5. | Cecil H Parker School | 55 |
| 6. | Mount Vernon High School | 50 |
| 7. | Edward Williams School | 50 |
| 8. | Mount Vernon Leadership Academy | 50 |
| 9. | Nelson Mandela/Dr Hosa Zollicoffer School | 49 |
| 10. | Pennington School | 47 |
| 11. | Graham School | 47 |
| 12. | Lincoln School | 44 |
| 13. | Denzel Washington School-Arts | 43 |
| 14. | Amani Public Charter School | 43 |
| 15. | Traphagen School | 41 |
| 16. | Benjamin Turner Middle School | 34 |
| 17. | Mount Vernon Steam Academy | 32 |
| 18. | Intellectus Preparatory Charter School | - |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Rebecca Turner Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mount Vernon schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Mount Vernon has 18 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,185 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.9:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
