Mount Vernon Middle School

Mount Vernon Middle School is an intermediate school of reasonably sized scale in Mount Vernon, Iowa, one of the schools within Mount Vernon Comm School District, hosting 425 students in grades 5 through 8.

Mount Vernon Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Mount Vernon Comm School District, a district that educates 1,438 students overall.

On demographics, Mount Vernon Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest looks like 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mount Vernon Middle School has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.2:1, putting Mount Vernon Middle School higher than the state norm the norm. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Linn County (around 40%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mount Vernon Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 84.1%, the actual is 90.1%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the broader community, Linn County reports that median household income runs about $77,649, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which Mount Vernon Middle School is one.

Mount Vernon High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Mount Vernon Middle School. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mount Vernon Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 81.2%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mount Vernon Middle School has changed only slightly, going from 419 students in 2018 to 425 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 in 2025.

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