Enrollment
301
Elementary
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362010001836
MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY
195 N COLUMBUS AVE, MOUNT VERNON, NY 10553 · (914) 665-5110 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL301 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 56% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
162 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 17 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 27 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 32 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 26 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 27 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 7 | 22 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 31 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (27) is 13% smaller than its 8th grade class (31).
Student demographics
46%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
56.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
56.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +7.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 56.3% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 48.9% |
% 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
53.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 HONOR ACADEMY
MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY's state test result (53.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY this school | 301 | 53.8% | 53.7% |
| GRAHAM SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 406 | 58.1% | 34.8% |
| BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY MOUNT VERNON | 340 | 62.6% | 43.4% |
| TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 316 | 50.6% | 58.0% |
| CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 293 | 64.2% | 27.5% |
| PS 360 SAINT ALBANS | 261 | 57.9% | 62.4% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 HONOR ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #1,015 of 2,335 | #68 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #1,211 of 2,342 ▲ 153 | #82 of 127 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,111 of 2,343 ▼ 143 | #70 of 127 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 301 | #1,990 of 2,585 | #123 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #349 of 2,338 | #18 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.2% | #1,387 of 2,388 | #96 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 53.8% | #1,302 of 2,534 | #44 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.6% | #489 of 1,757 | #13 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
301
-55 (-15%) vs 2020
-12% since 1990-91, when it was 344
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 301 | 31 | 9.7:1 | 54% (162) |
| 2023-24 | 313 | 31.2 | 10.0:1 | 50% (158) |
| 2022-23 | 308 | 29.8 | 10.3:1 | 58% (178) |
| 2020-21 | 356 | 32 | 11.1:1 | 68% (241) |
| 2017-18 | 394 | 23 | 17.1:1 | 78% (309) |
| 2015-16 | 442 | 29 | 15.2:1 | 62% (273) |
| 2010-11 | 411 | 35 | 11.7:1 | 72% (294) |
| 2000-01 | 489 | 31 | 15.8:1 | 44% (216) |
| 1990-91 | 344 | 30 | 11.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY.
About MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY
MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY is one of the public schools in MOUNT VERNON, New York. It is a small elementary school. The school runs pre-K through 8 and enrolls 301 students. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 32% lower.
MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY reports to MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 16 schools and 6,654 students.
The share of Black students at MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY is 69%, a majority. The school is also 25% Hispanic and 3% White. That is higher than the 14% Black share among all Westchester County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 46%.
The school's 31 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.7:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY, 54% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Westchester County average 38%.
Among New York public elementary schools, MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY outscored 56%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY are 1.5 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (53.7% actual, 55.2% predicted).
Looking at the county, Westchester County, the median household earns about $118,976 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Westchester County has 255 public schools with about 140,968 students, including MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY.
TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 52.7%; MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY's is 53.7%, ranking 5th of 9.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 15% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The school's ratio dropped from 11.1:1 to 9.7:1 between 2020-21 and 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 HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,062 students
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMYHigh · 747 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTSHigh · 427 students
- PENNINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- GRAHAM SCHOOLElementary · 406 students
Other schools in MOUNT VERNON
- MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,062 students
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMYHigh · 747 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTSHigh · 427 students
- PENNINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- GRAHAM SCHOOLElementary · 406 students
Nearby schools
- TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL0.3 mi · 316
- LINCOLN SCHOOL0.4 mi · 470
- INTELLECTUS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 97
- MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,062
- PENNINGTON SCHOOL0.7 mi · 409
- NELSON MANDELA/DR HOSA ZOLLICOFFER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 355
Frequently asked questions
About MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY?
MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY enrolls approximately 301 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY serve?
MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY serves grades PK-08.
How many students per teacher at MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY?
Approximately 9.7:1 students per teacher at MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY.
What is the student diversity at MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY?
Student demographics at MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY are roughly 3% White, 25% Hispanic, 69% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY in?
MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY is part of MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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