NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Mount Vernon, OH

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8 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.

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8
Schools
3,676
Students
45.6/100
Avg Resource Index
16.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Mount Vernon has more public-school enrollment than 39% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Mount Vernon sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Mount Vernon's 8 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.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 23-point gap between Columbia Elementary School and Dan Emmett Elementary School 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.

City enrollment
Top 61%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
72nd percentile
Teacher staffing
40th percentile

Mount Vernon High School accounts for 25.7% of all Mount Vernon public-school enrollment

That concentration means Mount Vernon-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Mount Vernon school enrollment varies 4.0× across entities

Mount Vernon school enrollment ranges from 238 students (lowest) to 944 students (highest), a spread of 706 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Mount Vernon student-teacher ratio is 16.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

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 Variation between sub-units within Mount Vernon is typically wider than the Mount Vernon-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Columbia Elementary School 58
2. Pleasant Street Elementary School 54
3. East Elementary School 51
4. Mount Vernon Middle School 44
5. Twin Oak Elementary School 43
6. Knox County Career Center 41
7. Mount Vernon High School 39
8. Dan Emmett Elementary School 35

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Which Mount Vernon school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Columbia Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Mount Vernon schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Mount Vernon, OH? ▼

Mount Vernon has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,676 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.3:1.

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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.