Mount Vernon

As a micro-enrollment primary school in Raleigh, North Carolina, Mount Vernon works with 70 students from grades K through 8, operated by Wake County Schools. That puts it 85% leaner than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Wake County Schools comprises 198 schools with combined enrollment of 163,176 students; Mount Vernon is among them.

Looking at the student body, Mount Vernon shows that the most-represented group is Black (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 23% White, 21% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Mount Vernon has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 2.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Mount Vernon qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Wake County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, census data for Wake County shows median household income runs about $105,768, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Mount Vernon is one of 237 public schools in Wake County (combined enrollment of about 184,790 students).

Combs Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mount Vernon.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 29%: 99 students in 2018 compared to 70 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 21% across the same window.

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