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Click here to view this month's edition of the Mount Vernon Jewel Collection Digital Newsletter!

As the Mount Vernon City School District begins planning the 2026-2027 annual budget, the District invites you to share your input. Click here to access the survey. Please take the opportunity to share what is most important to you as it relates to our schools. This survey will be open until Friday, December 19, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.

Mount Vernon’s swift response to the apartment fires that devastated our city shows the true unity in our community and school district. From volunteering your time to donating goods for the victims, your efforts have not gone unnoticed. Thank you to all of those who helped out in a time of need. #MtVernonShines. You can view Mount Vernon’s Jewel Box on our Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube!

Looking for local food pantries, coat drives or where to get your flu shot this season? There are plenty of neighboring resources to support, click to read more! 

In just its second year as a Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathway, the Hospitality Management program at Mount Vernon High School was approved as a graduation pathway by the New York State Education Department (NYSED). The approval, effective for the 2026-2027 school year and lasting five years, allows students to receive technical endorsements for the hospitality industry after completing the program and taking the state-approved exams. 

As the Mount Vernon community rallied together to support families affected by an apartment fire, dinner was served at First Presbyterian Church for an early Thanksgiving gathering!

ACE students at Mount Vernon High School celebrated Native American Heritage Month through a hands-on cultural exploration project. Students presented their projects proudly to students and staff last week. 

Students in the Culinary Arts 3 class at Mount Vernon High School have been putting their skills to use to bake pies for their competition fundraiser, with any pies that they don't sell being donated to local organizations ahead of Thanksgiving! Students are raising money for the New York State Restaurant Association ProStart Invitational at the Culinary Institute of America in February.