Mount Vernon High School
Address

501 Highway 37 South Mount Vernon , Texas 75457 United States
Coordinates	33°10′33″N 95°13′42″W / 33.175705°N 95.228465°W / 33.175705; -95.228465
Information
Type	Public high school
School district	Mount Vernon Independent School District
NCES School ID	483177003541^[1]
Principal	Jason Glover
Teaching staff	35.49 (on an FTE basis)^[1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	459 (2016–2017)^[1]
Student to teacher ratio	12.93^[1]
Color(s)	Purple and White
Athletics conference	University Interscholastic League Class 3A
Mascot	Tiger/Lady Tiger
Nickname	Tigers
Yearbook	The Tiger's Tail
Website	mountvernonehs.ss10.sharpschool.com

Mount Vernon High School is a public high school in Mount Vernon, Texas, United States. It is part of the Mount Vernon Independent School District and classified as a 3A school by the University Interscholastic League. In 2015, the school was rated "Met Standard" by the Texas Education Agency.^[2]

Athletics

The Mount Vernon Tigers compete in these sports:^[3]

The 1948 Boys Basketball championship team was coached by Milburn "Catfish" Smith who won the title undefeated. In 2019, the school hired Art Briles, who had been previously fired from Baylor for his prominent role in their sexual assault scandal, as their head football coach.^[4]^[5]

State titles

Boys Basketball^[6]
- 1948(1A)
Girls Basketball
- 2018 (3A) state champions
Softball^[7]
- 1994(3A)
One Act Play^[8]
- 2000(3A), 2004(3A), 2014(2A)
Spirit (Cheerleading)
- 2016 3A State Champions (UIL Pilot Year)
- 2017 3A state champions
- 2018 3A state champions

Notable alumni

Judd Hambrick, television newscaster and reporter
Butch Maples, former professional football player
Don Meredith, former professional football player

Notable faculty

Art Briles

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Search for Public Schools - MT VERNON H S (483177003541)". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
^ "2015 Accountability Rating System" (PDF). Texas Education Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-10.
^ The Athletics Department
^ "Former Baylor coach Art Briles named head coach of Texas' Mount Vernon High School". USA TODAY. May 24, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2019. The statement said his deal is for two years and was approved by the school district's Board of Trustees on Friday.
^ "Baylor emails show discussion of allegations against Elliott before he raped student". wacotrib.com. 9 August 2018. Retrieved 2022-11-05.
^ UIL Boys Basketball Archives
^ UIL Softball Archives Archived 2016-03-03 at uil100.org (Error: unknown archive URL)
^ UIL One Act Play Archives