3601 15th Ave N
Saint Petersburg, FL 33713

We love Mount Vernon. We are new this year and came from a private school experience that we loved. MVE is definitely a different environment but it has a lot to recommend it: the teachers and staff are amazing; the student body and staff are diverse; the parents are engaged. I highly recommend checking out the school on the open house day (Nov 2) or one of the tour days. There's plenty more to learn than the numbers here suggest.

Beautifully renovated school. The best high school in Saint Petersburg.

We had high hopes and fingers crossed when we enrolled our child here. We had heard about all the money spent on renovations, a new award-winning principal who boasted handpicking her teachers. There was chatter about cutting edge technology and project based learning… The technology instruction we learned later, consisted of an out of field instructor sitting at the front of the room while the students stare at their laptops, essentially teaching themselves the curriculum using publisher made powerpoints. Instruction in Math and Science were seriously lacking. Behaviors at this school were off the chain, bullying and fights every day. There’s a TikTok channel dedicated to fights at Tyrone Middle so you can look that up. We later learned that many of the teachers were disrespectful to students. One substitute was recorded cursing at her 6th grade class yet she is still employed there. Math teachers recorded ridiculing and bulling a student. It’s no wonder children there are so cruel to each other when that is the behavior being modeled by the adults. Calls and emails sent to the administrators goes ignored. It is a truly awful school.