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.
$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.
How do historians decide what really happened?
Foundations of Historical Thinking I students tackled this question through a school-wide simulation, collecting eyewitness accounts, examining bias, and placing events within their broader context. By corroborating sources and questioning perspectives, students learned that history isn’t just memorizing facts—it’s analyzing evidence and making informed judgments.
We are proud to share that Mount Vernon has been named a @realleadersinc 2026 Top Impact Company, ranked #63 out of 125 organizations nationwide.
This recognition places Mount Vernon alongside purpose-driven organizations such as @patagonia, @allbirds, and @warbyparker, all recognized for leading with purpose, values, and impact.
We aim to design a better world, together, by being a place where learning is driven by curiosity, purpose, and real-world relevance. Being named among the top impact organizations affirms our commitment to developing students who think deeply about what is meaningful to self and consequential to others, to be bold and engaged citizen leaders, and contribute meaningfully to their communities.
We are grateful to Real Leaders® for this honor and to our faculty, staff, students, families, and partners who make this work possible.
Middle School Maker, Design, and Engineering is intentionally designed for every learner. From cardboard prototypes to complex systems, students use making as a way to think, question, and communicate ideas.
Curiosity leads. Confidence follows.
Read more at the Campus Stories link in our bio!
#MiddleSchoolMDE #InquiryBasedLearning #StudentCentered #AtlantaMiddleSchool
Leadership that makes an impact.
Congratulations to Oliver Membrillo ’27, recognized by @roughdraftatl in its annual 20 Under 20 list honoring students who give back in meaningful ways. Oliver, a 2026 honoree, alongside runner-up Jalen Hagans ’27, exemplifies leadership, service, and impact far beyond our campus. We’re proud to celebrate the difference they’re making in our community.
#20Under20 #StudentLeadership #ServiceInAction #BeyondTheCampus #MustangPride
Where imagination meets design.
Middle School Graphic Design students stepped into the role of creative directors, designing original, Disney-inspired theme parks from the ground up. From logos and park maps to rides, dining concepts, interior spaces, and custom merchandise, students built fully realized park brands. The project came to life in print, too—using DTF vinyl and in-house heat presses to produce physical merch. Big ideas, bold creativity, and design thinking in action.
#GraphicDesign #MiddleSchoolCreatives #DesignThinking #StudentMade #CreativeProcess #PrintDesign #ImagineCreateDesign
Literacy, empathy, and creativity—taking flight.
Inspired by Balloons over Broadway, Grade 3 students brought stories to life through close reading, thoughtful listening, and design thinking. After conducting empathy interviews with faculty and staff, students designed one-of-a-kind parade balloons tailored to the interests and experiences of the adults they interviewed. A joyful example of how comprehension, curiosity, and student voice lead to meaningful, creative work.
#BalloonsOverBroadway #Grade3Learning #LiteracyInAction #DesignThinking #StudentVoice #InquiryBasedLearning #CreativeConfidence
Designing for the future 🌍🏗️
Grade 6 students put science, math, and humanities into action during their Earth’s Forces Showcase. From studying plate tectonics and Earth’s layers to applying surface area constraints, students designed single-family homes using limited materials—all while researching the culture of an assigned city.
The result? Thoughtful structures that honor cultural context and reduce earthquake risk for the future.
Inquiry in action. Impact by design.
#EarthsForces #InquiryInAction #DesignThinking #FutureReady #AtlantaMiddleSchool #ImpactReady
‼️🎙 Big news! Our Head of Lower School, Molly Hudson (@mvmolly_hudson), joins @oprah and @adamgrant on @oprahpodcast to discuss Hidden Potential.
At Mount Vernon School, we don’t just read the book; we bring its ideas to life. From our youngest learners asking big questions to Upper School students solving real-world challenges, potential is unlocked every day.
Watch and listen now and see how Mount Vernon inspires curiosity, courage, and creativity at the link in our bio!
#OprahWinfrey #AdamGrant #HiddenPotential #OprahPodcast #MountVernonSchool #UnlockPotential #CharacterDevelopment
