Mount Vernon High

Mount Vernon High is a four-year high school of sizable scale in Alexandria, Virginia, overseen by Fairfax County Public Schools, works with 1,858 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Virginia's public schools average about 1,213 students each, so Mount Vernon High sits 53% larger than that benchmark.

Mount Vernon High is one of 199 schools operated by Fairfax County Public Schools, a district that serves 179,323 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Mount Vernon High records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 21% Black, 17% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the resource side, On paper, Mount Vernon High has 178 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.4:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fairfax County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mount Vernon High is in the bottom 10% of Virginia public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 72.6%; Mount Vernon High posts 56.8%, -15.8 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Fairfax County shows median household income runs about $153,637, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Mount Vernon High is one of 222 public schools in Fairfax County (combined enrollment of about 174,475 students).

Nearest neighbor: Riverside Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mount Vernon High comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mount Vernon High has fell 11%, going from 2,083 students in 2018 to 1,858 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 44% to 52%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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