Enrollment
194
Elementary
DISTRICT 248 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELIZABETH FORWARD SD·NCES 420909000142
Mt Vernon Elementary School
2400 Greenock Buena Vista Road, McKeesport, PA 15135 · (412) 896-2327 · Allegheny County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL194 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 62% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test 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 Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.3:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
93 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 75%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 66 | 34% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 32% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 34% |
Student demographics
30%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 23% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Elizabeth Forward SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
57.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.2pp since 2023
Math
60.0%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.3% | 60.0% |
| 2023-24 | 62.5% | 62.2% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. 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
63.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania'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 (63.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mt Vernon Elementary School this school | 194 | 47.9% | 63.0% |
| Margaret Ross Elementary School Aliquippa | 185 | 50.3% | 67.9% |
| Trafford Elementary School Trafford | 196 | 46.9% | 80.2% |
| Greenock Elementary School McKeesport | 173 | 50.3% | N/A |
| Mt Wolf Elementary School Mt Wolf | 217 | 45.2% | 58.4% |
| Independence Elementary School Aliquippa | 228 | 49.6% | 67.2% |
Matched among Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #490 of 1,396 | #65 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #535 of 1,511 ▼ 100 | #69 of 141 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.3% | #504 of 1,511 ▲ 44 | #67 of 141 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 194 | #1,544 of 1,638 | #143 of 156 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.9% | #1,033 of 1,600 | #84 of 152 |
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
194
-6 (-3%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 309
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 194 | 15.4 | 12.6:1 | 48% (93) |
| 2023-24 | 199 | 15.2 | 13.1:1 | 47% (93) |
| 2022-23 | 199 | 15 | 13.3:1 | 45% (90) |
| 2020-21 | 200 | 14 | 14.3:1 | 41% (81) |
| 2017-18 | 197 | 14.9 | 13.2:1 | 40% (79) |
| 2015-16 | 195 | 13 | 15.0:1 | 44% (86) |
| 2010-11 | 210 | 14 | 15.0:1 | 34% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 254 | 12 | 21.2:1 | 20% (52) |
| 1990-91 | 309 | 14 | 22.1:1 | 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 2% (197 to 194); teachers up 3% (14.9 to 15.4).
About Mt Vernon Elementary School
Mt Vernon Elementary School is a small elementary school based in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. There are 194 students enrolled, covering grades 3 through 5. That puts enrollment 56% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Mt Vernon Elementary School reports to Elizabeth Forward SD, which has 6 schools and 2,293 students.
White students account for 83% of the school's enrollment. Other reported shares: 10% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 3% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 30, compared with 70 nationally.
Mt Vernon Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1, with 15.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 48% at Mt Vernon Elementary School.
Mt Vernon Elementary School holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 62% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Mt Vernon Elementary School is 6.0 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools.
The school's county is Allegheny County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $78,548 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 46% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Allegheny County number 277, with about 141,392 students.
Central Elementary School, about 1.3 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Mt Vernon Elementary School is 2nd of 7 nearby schools with test data.
Mt Vernon Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased from 200 to 194, a 3% decline. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 12.6:1.
Mt Vernon Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elizabeth Forward SD
- Elizabeth Forward SHSHigh · 763 students
- Elizabeth Forward Middle SchoolMiddle · 538 students
- William Penn Elementary SchoolElementary · 333 students
- Central Elementary SchoolElementary · 292 students
- Greenock Elementary SchoolElementary · 173 students
Other schools in McKeesport
- McKeesport Area SHSHigh · 966 students
- Francis McClure Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- Founders Hall Middle SchoolMiddle · 642 students
- Twin Rivers Elementary SchoolElementary · 607 students
- South Allegheny High SchoolHigh · 464 students
- South Allegheny Middle SchoolMiddle · 321 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 3rd largest of the 4.
- Mt Vernon Elementary SchoolMOUNT VERNON, TX · 641 students
- Mt Vernon Elementary SchoolSpringfield, OR · 354 students
- Mt Vernon Elementary SchoolMount Vernon, ME · 93 students
Nearby schools
- Central Elementary School1.3 mi · 292
- Elizabeth Forward Middle School1.4 mi · 538
- Greenock Elementary School1.5 mi · 173
- Young Scholars of Greater Allegheny CS1.8 mi · 316
- Elizabeth Forward SHS3.5 mi · 763
- South Allegheny Middle School3.6 mi · 321
Frequently asked questions
About Mt Vernon Elementary SchoolHow large is Mt Vernon Elementary School?
Mt Vernon Elementary School enrolls approximately 194 students in grades 03-05.
What grades does Mt Vernon Elementary School serve?
Mt Vernon Elementary School serves grades 03-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Mt Vernon Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Mt Vernon Elementary School is approximately 12.6:1 (15 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Mt Vernon Elementary School?
Mt Vernon Elementary School reports a student body of 83% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 10% Two or more.
Is Mt Vernon Elementary School public or private?
Mt Vernon Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Elizabeth Forward SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.