Where does knowledge meet maximum impact?
At Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon is an independent school serving over 1250 students from Preschool through Grade 12. Mount Vernon School is a community where curiosity is cultivated, multiple perspectives are valued, and prototypes are built and iterated until mastery is achieved. Learning is amplified through real-world problem-solving, creating limitless possibilities for meaningful impact.
Mission
We are a school of inquiry, innovation, and impact. Grounded in Christian values, we prepare all students to be college ready, globally competitive, and engaged citizen leaders.
We are designing a better world...right now.
Approach
We design relevant, transformational curricular and learning competencies from Preschool through Upper School, explored through an inquiry-based approach and assessed on levels of proficiency.
Commitment
We commit to creating and sustaining a school culture where all members feel valued and safe, sharing their authentic selves to design a better world…together.
A PURPOSEFUL JOURNEY
The journey for all students to become college ready, globally competitive, and engaged citizen leaders begins in Preschool and continues through Grade 12. Along the journey, we build foundational literacies, skills, attributes, and meaningful relationships.
Mount Vernon Mantras
At Mount Vernon, our Mantras reflect the conditioning and fuel required for sustained growth, performance, and accountability over time. They are the behaviors that thrive in this culture. Remaining committed to utilizing these Mantras allows us to design an incredible future together.
The Lower School stage came alive as Kindergarten through Grade 5 students stepped boldly into the spotlight for this year’s Variety Show. ✨
From vocal performances and instrumental music to solo and group dances, gymnastics, magic, and comedy, each act reflected confidence, creativity, and courage. More than a show, it was a celebration of bravery, self-expression, and the pure joy of performing together. 💙
#MountVernonSchool #LowerSchool #StudentVoice #HaveFun
What happens when ninth graders become designers… and second graders become the clients?
In our new Traveling Classroom experience, Upper School students partnered with Grade 2 learners to design personalized reading hideouts inspired by their interests and favorite book characters. It meant asking better questions. Listening closely. Printing blueprints to full scale. And watching younger students literally step inside the ideas.
The result? Real collaboration across campuses and a powerful reminder that design starts with empathy.
Read how this cross-divisional partnership is redefining Interim at the Campus Stories link in our bio!
#MountVernonSchool #TravelingClassroom #DesignWithPurpose #CrossCampusCollaboration #LeadFromWhereYouAre
When Elle Crawford ’25 wanted to play lacrosse in Middle School, she joined the boys team because there wasn’t space for a girls program.
Now, thanks to the Let’s Do This campaign, the turf has been laid on our new field. But we cannot use the new field until we cross the finish line.
We are $1.1 million away from our goal.
Watch Elle’s story and help us achieve her dream of having a Mount Vernon girls lacrosse team and our goal to expand opportunities for the next generation of Mustangs.
Link in bio to support Let’s Do This 💙
Standing ovations all around 👏🎭
Our Upper School Thespians recently traveled to the Georgia Thespian Conference, the world’s largest gathering of inducted Thespians, for a weekend of performance, learning, and recognition alongside peers from across the state. Seniors Cooper Walker, Mia Walker, and Junior Charlotte Chaffin received many in university auditions.
Seniors Cooper Walker an Avery Cole were also named statewide winners in playwriting, earning top honors for the entire state. Charlotte Chaffin received all superior for her Acting Thespy. It was a weekend of incredible talent, dedication, and creative voice.
Their achievements reflect talent, dedication, perseverance, and a powerful creative voice. We are so proud of the way they continue to lead from where they are and represent our community on the big stage. 🌟
It’s the Year of the Horse, and if that doesn’t feel like a Mustang year, we don’t know what does. 🐎✨
This Lunar New Year, we’re celebrating the strength, spirit, and forward momentum that define our community. Here’s to courage, resilience, and charging boldly into what’s next.
This is progress, but it’s not ready yet.
Our newest regulation field now has turf, but students cannot use it until we finish what we started.
We still have $1.1 million to raise to complete:
• A six-lane track
• Two amenities buildings
• Locker rooms for baseball and softball
Until we close the gap, this space remains unfinished.
If you believe in what this field will mean for our student-athletes and our community, now is the time to act. Your gift directly moves this project from construction site to competition-ready.
Help us finish strong. Give today. Link in bio!
Big day. Big milestone. Big Mustang pride. 🖊️🐎
Mount Vernon celebrated six student-athletes who signed to compete at the collegiate level as part of Winter Signing Day. Their hard work, dedication, and passion have led them to this incredible moment, and we could not be more proud.
Congratulations to:
Pace Lilenfield – Wrestling, Tarleton State University
Priscilla Andrin – Softball, Providence College
Will Flowers – Baseball, Georgia College & State University
Olivia McDougall – Softball, Rhodes College
Chloe Cappola – Swimming, The Ohio State University
Mollie Martin – Softball, University of the South
We can’t wait to watch what’s next. 💙
#CollegeSigningDay
The PK4 Mail Project returned for its second year and it was even sweeter the second time around 💌
Now spanning both the Preschool and Education Buildings, our PK4–5 students operated the MV Post Office each morning collecting, sorting, and delivering mail across campus. From designing their own stamps to creating a campus-wide zip code system, they explored how mail works while strengthening numeracy skills like number identification, sorting, matching, and redistribution.
Just in time for a little extra love in the air, classrooms were filled with notes, smiles, and meaningful connections. 💕📬
$1.1M to go.
We’re in the final push of Let’s Do This, and each week we’ll share a new video story showing the impact of this campaign on our Mustangs.
Watch. Share. Be part of it. Let’s do this.
#mountvernonschool #letsdothismv
Today, we were grateful to welcome the Sandy Springs Police Department to campus as part of a planned and successful safety drill.
Thank you to Russ Malsnee, Director of Safety and Security at Mount Vernon, and sandyspringspolice for partnering with us on these proactive drills that help keep our students and campus community prepared and protected.
We appreciate your continued partnership and commitment to the safety of our school and the @cityofsandysprings.
Heartbeat Button Co. is more than a student-led business.
It’s a space where Grade 5 students design with empathy, lead with purpose, and create something meaningful for their community. From advertising and finance to production and delivery, students manage every step of the process, crafting pins that carry messages of care and connection. Each one is designed, made, and delivered by hand, turning design thinking into an act of kindness. 💗
More than a season. More than wins. 🏀✨
This year, Mount Vernon Girls Basketball became something bigger.
A connected program.
A shared vision.
A place where every athlete belongs.
From a historic Middle School Blue season to a program-wide Auburn experience, our girls saw what’s possible when leadership is modeled, roles matter, and confidence is built together. Younger players dreamed forward. Varsity leaders lifted others as they climbed.
This is basketball as a pathway.
To belonging.
To belief.
To what’s next.
And the future?
It’s already in motion.
Read more at the Campus Stories link in our bio!
#MountVernonAthletics #GirlsBasketball #LeadFromWhereYouAre #BelongingMatters #WhatsNext
Inquiry in action in PK5 💛
During The Mitten in Spanish, Mrs. Paola co-created a word wall with students as new animal vocabulary emerged naturally from the story, honoring student voice and authentic language learning. A simple shift from crayons to colorful scarves added movement, imagination, and sparked incredible conversation. Engagement was high, curiosity was leading, and the language we heard was amazing.
From Mount Vernon to Boulder and beyond.
Class of 2023 alumnus Phillip Adams recently returned to campus to share the first issue of Subset, his new Boulder-based print magazine spotlighting the local creative community. Designed and creatively directed entirely by Phillip—including a custom typeface—the debut issue features 170+ pages of work from photographers, artists, architects, and designers.
We love seeing alumni turn curiosity into craft and ideas into impact. 👏
Follow @subset.mag to explore the work and the creative voices behind it.
When student learning helps shape professional learning ✨
Earlier this month, Mount Vernon’s 8th grade Installation Art students took on a real-world design challenge: creating custom photobooth props for the Toddle User Group Conference hosted on campus. Inspired by Mount Vernon’s geometric wireframe brand elements, students designed and built transparent 2D and 3D forms using foamcore, tape, and spray paint—thoughtfully preparing pieces that would later be experienced by visiting educators.
During the conference, educators and school leaders gathered for two days of workshops, conversations, and collaborative design, exploring new ways to strengthen instructional practice, elevate student voice, and build future-ready learning environments.
For students, the project offered an authentic opportunity to design for a real audience, connect creativity to purpose, and see their work live beyond the classroom. For educators, it was a tangible example of inquiry-driven, purpose-filled learning in action.
Grateful for our partnership with @toddleapp and for the students and educators who helped bring this experience to life.
Provocations, predictions, and powerful conversations 📚
Grade 11–12 students in Dr. Griffin’s Nobel Prize in Literature course kicked off The Cave by José Saramago with a Provocation Station Rotation, using big ideas to spark discussion, make inferences, and test early interpretations before even turning the first page.
Designed by learners, for learners.
The new Frontier is Mount Vernon’s most ambitious reimagining of outdoor learning yet — an expanded space for Preschool and Lower School students that reflects years of research, student-driven design, and collaboration. Opening Fall 2026!
Read more at the Campus Stories link in our bio!
#MountVernonSchool
#PlayIsLearning
#OutdoorLearning
We heard 2026 is the new 2016. Let’s take a look back 👀
Students didn’t just go on a trip. They designed it.
Last week, Mount Vernon’s Innovation Diploma Leadership Team took learning on the road with a student-led immersion in San Francisco. From the Stanford d.school to Google, SFMOMA, and the Exploratorium, students explored how design thinking, storytelling, and physical space shape innovation and culture.
Even more powerful was what came next. Big questions, bold ideas, and new ways of imagining how learning spaces at Mount Vernon can make curiosity, inquiry, and impact visible every day.
When students lead, learning goes further.
Learn more at the Campus Stories link in our bio!
#StudentLedLearning
#DesignThinking
#ExperientialLearning
#InnovationInEducation
Today, we honor the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. King was an extraordinary example of the power of self-leadership. Each of us has the ability to lead through self-leadership that is fueled by empathy, and lands with grace.
At Mount Vernon, we work each day to deepen capacity in attributes that help Mustangs to lead from where they are - taking action to uplift community.
On this day, we reflect on how our words and actions have the power to design a more just, and hopeful world.
