Mount Vernon High School

Located at 731 Palisades Rd SW, in Mount Vernon, Iowa, Mount Vernon High School is a medium-sized high school that caters to 470 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Mount Vernon Comm School District.

Mount Vernon Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,438 students; Mount Vernon High School is among them.

On demographics, Mount Vernon High School logs that nearly all students (90%) are White; the rest breaks down as 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Linn County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Mount Vernon High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 85.3%; this one delivers 80.0%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Linn County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,649, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Mount Vernon High School is one of 83 public schools in Linn County (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students).

The closest other public school is Mount Vernon Middle School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Mount Vernon High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mount Vernon High School at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 82.5%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mount Vernon High School has expanded 14%, going from 413 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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