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Enrollment
354
Elementary
DISTRICT 327 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRINGFIELD SD 19·NCES 411167000586
Mt Vernon Elementary School
935 Filbert Ln, Springfield, OR 97478 · (541) 744-6403 · Lane County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL354 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.2:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
354 students
DISTRICT 95% · STATE 76%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 58 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 61 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 59% · 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
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
31.5%
OR avg 43.0% . +6.2pp since 2023
Math
17.4%
OR avg 31.8% . +2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.5% | 17.4% |
| 2023-24 | 25.3% | 14.7% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. 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
19.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.8%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 24% typical for Oregon 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 Oregon'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 Mt Vernon Elementary School
Mt Vernon Elementary School's state test result (19.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt Vernon Elementary School this school | 354 | 100.0% | 19.2% |
| Talent Elementary School Talent | 349 | 100.0% | 34.0% |
| Colonel Wright Elementary School The Dalles | 291 | 98.6% | 24.2% |
| Dry Hollow Elementary School The Dalles | 424 | 99.5% | 37.4% |
| Stearns Elementary School Klamath Falls | 354 | 92.4% | 13.5% |
| Monmouth Elementary School Monmouth | 468 | 92.9% | 31.3% |
Matched among Oregon 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 Mt Vernon Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Lane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #523 of 591 | #51 of 52 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.4% | #564 of 646 ▲ 24 | #50 of 55 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.5% | #471 of 646 ▲ 79 | #43 of 55 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 354 | #303 of 710 | #24 of 58 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #128 of 587 | #11 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.1% | #206 of 587 | #12 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #83 of 645 | #8 of 55 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.7% | #76 of 493 | #3 of 39 |
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
354
+1 (+0%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 341
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 12.6:1
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 | 354 | 23.6 | 15.0:1 | 100% (354) |
| 2023-24 | 357 | 25.5 | 14.0:1 | 63% (226) |
| 2022-23 | 412 | 26.6 | 15.5:1 | 63% (260) |
| 2020-21 | 353 | 28 | 12.6:1 | 99% (350) |
| 2017-18 | 511 | 26.3 | 19.4:1 | 68% (345) |
| 2015-16 | 523 | 26 | 20.1:1 | 67% (349) |
| 2010-11 | 487 | 21 | 23.2:1 | 65% (315) |
| 2000-01 | 507 | 23 | 22.0:1 | 47% (238) |
| 1990-91 | 341 | 15 | 22.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mt Vernon Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (511 to 354); teachers down 11% (26.3 to 23.6).
About Mt Vernon Elementary School
Mt Vernon Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Springfield, Oregon. Enrollment stands at 354 students, covering kindergarten through 5.
Springfield SD 19 enrolls 8,928 students, and its 21 schools include Mt Vernon Elementary School.
More than half of enrollment at Mt Vernon Elementary School is White: 53%. Other groups make up 39% Hispanic and 6% multiracial. County-wide, 81% of Lane County residents are White. A diversity index of 57% means there is a 57% chance two randomly chosen students at Mt Vernon Elementary School are from different groups.
For every teacher at Mt Vernon Elementary School, there are about 15.0 students; the school has 23.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Oregon is 16.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 354 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 100% of enrollment. It compares with 76% for public schools in Lane County.
Mt Vernon Elementary School is 4.6 points below its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (19.2% versus 23.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Oregon.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Lane County show that the median household earns about $71,544 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 34%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Lane County has 117 public schools with about 42,240 students, including Mt Vernon Elementary School.
Mt Vernon Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Douglas Gardens Elementary School, about 0.5 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Mt Vernon Elementary School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Mt Vernon Elementary School is 6th of 7 on proficiency.
NCES assigns Mt Vernon Elementary School the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment went from 353 in 2020-21 to 354 in 2024-25, a change of 1 student. Federal data show the ratio rising from 12.6:1 to 15.0:1.
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Lane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
384,207
Census ACS
Median income
$71,544
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
117
42,240 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Springfield SD 19
- Springfield High SchoolHigh · 1,229 students
- Thurston High SchoolHigh · 1,215 students
- Hamlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 573 students
- Thurston Middle SchoolMiddle · 524 students
- Agnes Stewart Middle SchoolMiddle · 460 students
- Riverbend Elementary SchoolElementary · 424 students
Other schools in Springfield
- Springfield High SchoolHigh · 1,229 students
- Thurston High SchoolHigh · 1,215 students
- Hamlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 573 students
- Thurston Middle SchoolMiddle · 524 students
- Agnes Stewart Middle SchoolMiddle · 460 students
- Riverbend Elementary SchoolElementary · 424 students
Other Mt Vernon Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Mt Vernon Elementary. Mt Vernon Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Mt Vernon Elementary SchoolMOUNT VERNON, TX · 641 students
- Mt Vernon Elementary SchoolMcKeesport, PA · 194 students
- Mt Vernon Elementary SchoolMount Vernon, ME · 93 students
Nearby schools
- Douglas Gardens Elementary School0.5 mi · 293
- Agnes Stewart Middle School0.9 mi · 460
- Riverbend Elementary School1.3 mi · 424
- Maple Elementary School1.9 mi · 257
- Thurston High School2.2 mi · 1,215
- Gateways High School2.5 mi · 101
Frequently asked questions
About Mt Vernon Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Mt Vernon Elementary School?
Mt Vernon Elementary School enrolls approximately 354 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Mt Vernon Elementary School serve?
Mt Vernon Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mt Vernon Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mt Vernon Elementary School is approximately 15.0:1 (24 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mt Vernon Elementary School?
At Mt Vernon Elementary School, the student body is approximately 53% White, 39% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Mt Vernon Elementary School?
Mt Vernon Elementary School is overseen by Springfield SD 19 in Lane County.
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