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What's the most underrated thing about MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
1,062
High
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362010001839
MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL
100 CALIFORNIA RD, MOUNT VERNON, NY 10552 · (914) 665-5300 · Westchester County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,062 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of New York public high schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
78 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
705 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 281 | 26% |
| Grade 10 | 257 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 237 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 254 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 33 | 3% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
67.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
38.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +22.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 22 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 16.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL
MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (43.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,062 | 66.4% | 43.7% |
| MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMY MOUNT VERNON | 747 | 70.1% | 54.8% |
| BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS BROOKLYN | 890 | 66.6% | 59.3% |
| PATHWAYS COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL SAINT ALBANS | 818 | 72.4% | 62.1% |
| SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ROCHESTER | 1,065 | 68.4% | 42.6% |
| PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL SPRINGFIELD GARDENS | 521 | 69.5% | 61.0% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.7% | #865 of 1,135 | #41 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #774 of 1,109 ▲ 265 | #41 of 48 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #642 of 1,135 ▲ 222 | #43 of 48 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,062 | #227 of 1,216 | #16 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #897 of 1,058 | #39 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.6% | #477 of 1,070 | #28 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.4% | #558 of 1,167 | #12 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.8% | #106 of 743 | #3 of 29 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,062
-240 (-18%) vs 2020
-59% since 1990-91, when it was 2,621
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 16.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,062 | 78 | 13.6:1 | 66% (705) |
| 2023-24 | 1,014 | 79.4 | 12.8:1 | 66% (669) |
| 2022-23 | 1,094 | 81.5 | 13.4:1 | 76% (827) |
| 2020-21 | 1,302 | 79 | 16.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,451 | 85 | 17.1:1 | 80% (1,168) |
| 2015-16 | 1,186 | 96 | 12.3:1 | 60% (713) |
| 2010-11 | 1,475 | 90 | 16.4:1 | 67% (985) |
| 2000-01 | 2,353 | 158 | 14.9:1 | 23% (542) |
| 1990-91 | 2,621 | 181 | 14.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL.
About MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL
At 100 CALIFORNIA RD in MOUNT VERNON, New York, MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL operates as a high-enrollment high school. The school serves 1,062 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. For comparison, high schools in New York average about 668 students.
MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL is one school in a 16-school district, MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 6,654 students.
MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL is 63% Black by enrollment. Other students are 31% Hispanic and 3% White. By comparison, Westchester County residents are about 14% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 51% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school has about 13.6 students per teacher and 78 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.6 above the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 66%. The gap from the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County is 28 points.
The allk12 Grade for MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL is C-. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 18% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 50.6% at MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 43.7%.
Among Westchester County residents, the median household income is $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL is one of 255 public schools in the county.
TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL is located about 0.4 miles from MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL. The five-mile area around MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 43.7% average proficiency ranks 9th among 9 nearby schools.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 18% from 2020-21, when MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL had 1,302 students, to 2024-25, when it had 1,062. Its ratio of students to teachers was 16.5:1 in 2020-21, and 13.6:1 in 2024-25.
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMYHigh · 747 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTSHigh · 427 students
- PENNINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- GRAHAM SCHOOLElementary · 406 students
- EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOLElementary · 398 students
Other schools in MOUNT VERNON
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMYHigh · 747 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTSHigh · 427 students
- PENNINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- GRAHAM SCHOOLElementary · 406 students
- EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOLElementary · 398 students
Other Mount Vernon High schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Mount Vernon High. MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 8.
- Mount Vernon HighAlexandria, VA · 1,858 students
- Mount Vernon High SchoolMount Vernon, WA · 1,849 students
- Mount Vernon High SchoolMount Vernon, IL · 1,233 students
- Mount Vernon High SchoolMount Vernon, OH · 944 students
- Mount Vernon High SchoolMount Vernon, IN · 583 students
Nearby schools
- TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL0.4 mi · 316
- HUTCHINSON SCHOOL0.7 mi · 366
- MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY0.7 mi · 301
- PENNINGTON SCHOOL0.7 mi · 409
- DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 496
- LINCOLN SCHOOL1.0 mi · 470
Frequently asked questions
About MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOLHow large is MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL?
MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,062 students in grades 09-12.
Is MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 13.6:1 (78 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL?
At MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 3% White, 31% Hispanic, 63% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.