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Students Recognized in Upper School Honors Assembly

Contributed by Chip Houston, Head of Upper School Today we celebrate the learning and achievements of our community for the 2018-2019 school year. This year began with a new modular schedule, based on research and consultation, aligned with the m...

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Junior Sarah Eaves Receives Honorable Mention in 2019 Jostens Photo Contest

Sarah Eaves earned Honorable Mention in the 2019 Jostens Photo Contest, submitting a photograph, Reminiscing Them, taken for a project in Michelle Erling's Upper School Photography Class. Out of more than 6,000 submissions, only 111 received spe...

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Girls Can Build Their Own Castles: Women in Engineering

Historically, women have been under-represented in the field of engineering, yet many of these women have accomplished much by making breakthroughs by contributing their minds and efforts to the diverse fields of engineering -- civil, mechanical,...

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Varsity Sports Highlights

Boys Basketball hosted the first round of GHSA playoffs for the first time in Mount Vernon history with a victory over Mount Pisgah Christian School. Junior Morgan Mulrain led the team in scoring, with 22 points. That win advanced the Mustangs to the...

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A Mustang Becomes a Blazer

Senior Ashley MCown signed her National Letter of Intent today to play soccer at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. UAB is an NCAA Division-I institution, which is the highest level of amateur athletics in the country, competing in Conference-...

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Thank you, Bruce – for 15 Years of Servant Leadership

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23 These are the words that Chuck Waters, Chair of the Board of Trustees for Mount Vernon Presbyterian...

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Excelling on the Trails and on the Court

CROSS COUNTRY EXCELLENCE! 27 Mustang runners (10 girls, 17 boys) competed this weekend in the Alexander HS ASICS Invitational at Fox Hill Farms Sporting Club in Douglasville, Georgia. This track is normally one of the faster courses we run, and t...

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Transformation on the Frontier

#MVlittles know that the Frontier is always a wonderful place, but recently it transformed, not once, but twice in one day -- into a place even more magical than they could imagine. Preschoolers kicked off the Global Cardboard Challenge, an annu...

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Varsity Football Undefeated at 5-0

Our UNDEFEATED Varsity football team is having a record-breaking 2017-18 season! Currently at 5-0, our Mustangs defeated Landmark Christian Academy on Friday, September 22, for the first time ever, at Homecoming - with a resounding 42-14 victory. Pla...

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We’ll Miss You Chef Allen!

SAGE Dining Service’s Food Service Director for Mount Vernon, Chef Allen Clark, has been selected to share his deep knowledge and understanding of all things culinary, with another school in the Atlanta area. In just four years of working with...