MVCSD Offering Subsidized Bus Passes

The Mount Vernon City School District and the City of Mount Vernon will hold a celebration of Rai Benjamin on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Rai Benjamin will receive a spot on the Wall of Fame at Mount Vernon High School, and the MVHS track will be renamed after him in a private ceremony. He will then board a motorcade with city and school officials. The motorcade will stop at each school in the District, and it will end at Memorial Field, where there will be a celebration that is open to the public beginning at 1 p.m.

There will be tryouts for the Junior Knights basketball team on Monday, September 16 and Tuesday, September 17, 2024. Scan the QR code or click here to register. Tryout information provided at registration.

Mount Vernon High School will be holding cheerleading tryouts on September 11 and 12 from 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. in the small gymnasium. Please wear a white shirt and black shorts with running sneakers on both days. You must be cleared on Family ID in order to try out. 

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is hosting voter registration events throughout the Mount Vernon City School District now until Tuesday, October 15, 2024. Voter registration will be held on Mondays at Mount Vernon High School from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Tuesdays at Denzel Washington School of the Arts from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Wednesdays at Mount Vernon STEAM Academy from 11:50 a.m. to 1:20 p.m., and Fridays at Rebecca Turner Academy from 11:30 a.m. To 1:30 p.m. For more information, please contact Cynthia Crenshaw at 914-446-2750. 

All students interested in playing a fall sport (Football, girls' volleyball, boys' volleyball, girls' soccer, boys' soccer, girls' tennis, girls' cross-country track, boys' cross-country track, cheerleading, and girls' swimming) should make sure they have an up to date physical. 

Students going into grade seven and eight – PLEASE REGISTER on FAMILY ID. Please have an updated copy of your annual physical available to upload. Student will ultimately be cleared by the medical professional in their respective school buildings.

Once cleared by the medical professional, the student may try out for the modified team.

The Mount Vernon City School District is offering subsidized Metro Cards for $145 per semester, half of the full price of $290, for all grade 7-12 students. The Metro Card is only valid on Bee-Line buses, not MTA. Cards are valid for five months, September through January and February through June. Cards are valid Monday through Friday from 5:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. with up to four trips per day.

Contact Daffodil Graham at dgraham@mtvernoncsd.org, 914-358-2888, or in room 231 of Mount Vernon High School from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. Monday through Friday. Submit cash or a money order payable to MVCSD to purchase the passes.

Visit https://lhric.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx, or scan the QR code, to view open positions in the Mount Vernon City School District. The District is looking for talented professionals who want to make a difference in the lives of its students.

Please see the instructions below on how to create your new Infinite Campus Parent Portal account. To begin, click the following link: Parent Portal Activation (Please note Infinite Campus Portal works best in the Google Chrome browser.)  If you did not receive your access code, please contact us via email at smcgarty@mtvernoncsd.org.