Mt Vernon Early Learning Academy

Mt Vernon Early Learning Academy is one of the one-room-style K-5 schools in Fortville, Indiana, one of the schools within Mt Vernon Community School Corp, with 117 students on its rolls from grade pre-K. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Mt Vernon Early Learning Academy sits 73% below that benchmark.

Mt Vernon Community School Corp runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,940 students. Mt Vernon Early Learning Academy is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mt Vernon Early Learning Academy shows that White students make up the majority at 67%; the rest breaks down as 15% Black, 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Hancock County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 2 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 53.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 28% of students at Mt Vernon Early Learning Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Hancock County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $93,186 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 2%. Mt Vernon Early Learning Academy is one of 24 public schools in Hancock County (combined enrollment of about 14,779 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mt Vernon Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mt Vernon Early Learning Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mt Vernon Early Learning Academy has ticked up 5%, going from 111 students in 2018 to 117 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 55.5:1 in 2018 to 53.9:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.