MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY

MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY is a modestly sized elementary school in MOUNT VERNON, New York, part of MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school hosts 301 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 443.

Within MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 16 schools and 6,654 students, MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY logs that 69% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Westchester County (around 38%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.2%; this one delivers 53.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Westchester County) records that the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY is one of 255 public schools in Westchester County (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students).

TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 52.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY has declined 24%, going from 394 students in 2018 to 301 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 76% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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