The city's sole public school was the E.T.Belsaw/Mt. Vernon School, which covered grades Kindergarten through 8."Schools." Town of Mount Vernon. Retrieved on July 29, 2016.A copy of the school's attendance boundary, as the file "Belsaw Mt. Vernon.pdf", is available from the Mobile County Public School System Student Support Services Department. This file was previously available online (see "Elementary Attendance Zone Maps(A-I)" "Belsaw Mt Vernon" but the link is broken) In 2006 it had 321 students. From 2010 to 2016 several extracurricular programs at the school were discontinued. It had 98 students in 2016. Gwendolyn Pugh, Mount Vernon Town Councilor, stated that the enrollment drop was due to the extracurricular programs being removed. The county board voted to close the school in 2016.
The city's sole public school was the E.T.Belsaw/Mt. Vernon School, which covered grades Kindergarten through 8"Schools." Town of Mount Vernon. Retrieved on July 29 2016.A copy of .the school's attendance boundary, as the file "Belsaw Mt. Vernon.pdf", is available from the Mobile County Public School System Student Support Services Department. This file was previously available online (see "Elementary Attendance Zone Maps(A-I)" "Belsaw Mt Vernon" but the link is broken) In 2006 it had 321 students. From 2010 to 2016 several extracurricular programs at the school were discontinued. It had 98 students in 2016. Gwendolyn Pugh, Mount Vernon Town Councilo,r, stated that the enrollment drop was due to the extracurricular programs being removed. The county board voted to close the school in 2016.