Mount Vernon Junior High School

Mount Vernon Junior High School is a public middle school serving grades 6–8 with 493 students in Mount Vernon, Indiana, part of MSD Mount Vernon. In 2025–26 it ranked 71st of 486 Indiana middle schools, placing it in the 85th percentile with 4 stars, and its district ranks 67th of 374 districts — 82nd percentile, also 4 stars.

Compared with nearby schools, Mount Vernon sits near the top of the group. It is essentially tied with North Posey Junior High School — just one rank position behind — and 13 positions above Perry Heights Middle School, while ranking far ahead of Thompkins Middle School, Helfrich Park STEM Academy, and Washington Middle School. Math and science are relative strengths: 6th-grade math proficiency is 54.96% versus Indiana's 40.2%, 7th-grade math is 55.95% versus 35.9%, 8th-grade math is 42.41% versus 34.2%, and 6th-grade science is 56.15% versus 41.2%. ELA is above state at every grade (48.85%, 52.66%, and 49.37% in grades 6–8), but North Posey and Perry Heights score higher in 7th- and 8th-grade ELA, so upper-grade reading and writing look like the clearest opportunity. One caveat: North Posey serves grades 7–8 only, so all-grade comparisons are not perfectly equivalent.

The 2025–26 jump is the headline. All-grade proficiency rose from 37.58% to 50.44% in ELA (+12.86 points), from 42.68% to 50.98% in math (+8.30), and from 46.75% to 56.15% in science (+9.40), while the school's rank climbed from 158th of 480 to 71st of 486. Chronic absenteeism was 14.9% in 2024–25, better than the state's 16.7% and lower than Thompkins, Helfrich, and Washington, though higher than North Posey's 10.0% and Perry Heights' 12.4%, and slightly above the district's 14.2%. Free/reduced lunch is 40.57%, moderate for this group, and per-student spending is $12,754 with a 14.9 student-teacher ratio — North Posey achieves top ELA results with lower spending and smaller classes, so resources alone do not explain the results.