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The Mount Vernon City School District will hold a town hall meeting at Mount Vernon Honor Academy on Thursday, November 7, 2024, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Potential reconfiguration of the current K-8 building configuration to a more age-appropriate and cost-effective model will be discussed. The Mount Vernon City School District welcomes feedback and communication from our school community prior to the town hall meeting. Please email the District via contactus@mtvernoncsd.org with any questions or comments.
Students in the Academic and Career Exploration (ACE) Program at Mount Vernon High School visited City Hall on Friday, November 1, 2024, to cast their early votes in the 2024 General Election. The trip incorporated independent living skills that they have been learning about for the past two to three years. With teacher supervision, they walked from MVHS and caught the Beeline bus, using metro cards for the first time.
The Graham School field and parking lot were filled with crisp leaves, loud music and sounds of enjoyment, as hundreds of Mount Vernon residents walked from table to table, enjoying fun activities, snacks and live performances. On November 2, 2024, the Mount Vernon City School District held its annual District-wide Fall Festival to promote unity and connection amongst the community.
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Mount Vernon STEAM Academy students traveled to Nelson Mandela/Dr. Hosea Zollicoffer School on Thursday, October 24, 2024, to teach elementary children about financial management. The high school students taught their younger peers using lessons and teaching strategies they learned through Junior Achievement High School Heroes Program.
Denzel Washington School of the Arts will perform a production of "West Side Story: A Musical Revue" on Friday, November 8, 2024, at 6 p.m., in the Phylicia Rashad Auditorium. General admission is $10, and tickets for students and seniors are $5. Click here to buy tickets!
Creative costumes filled Mount Vernon City School District hallways on Thursday, October 31, 2024, as students celebrated Halloween. Among the celebrations, high school students at Rebecca Turner Academy handed out candy and painted faces of pre-K children, building community through collaboration. At Benjamin Turner Academy, parents, staff and students in the upper grades handed out candy to younger students in the library. At Graham School, the hallways were decorated with tables, and students walked around collecting treats. Hamilton School also held its annual trunk or treat.
Sheba Serna, a Mount Vernon High School Class of 1992 graduate, was recently awarded as Rebecca Turner Academy’s Teacher of the Year for the 2023-2024 school year by the Mount Vernon City School District. Ms. Serna worked in the Sundown Alternative Program prior to the founding of RTA, and she values her work deeply because she feels that she would have been an RTA student herself. The support she received at MVHS helped to propel her towards a teaching career within the District.
View the Q+A with Ms. Serna here!