Mount Vernon Christian School is a private PreK-12 Christian day school in the Skagit Valley, founded in 1951 by Dutch Reformed families seeking a Christian alternative to local public schools. The school operated for three decades as a K-8 program before adding its first high-school class in 1983 and now enrolls roughly 510 students across early learning, elementary, middle, and high-school divisions on a single Mount Vernon campus.
Among Northwest Washington Christian schools, Mount Vernon Christian's most direct peer is Lynden Christian School in Whatcom County — the larger, older Dutch Reformed K-12 institution serving a similar farming-community demographic. The two schools share a Christian Schools International (CSI) affiliation and a Reformed worldview that distinguishes them from the more interdenominational/evangelical peers (Bellevue Christian, King's Way) further south. Bellingham Christian School and Foothills Christian (also Mount Vernon) round out the regional peer set, but Mount Vernon Christian is the largest in Skagit County itself.
The Hurricanes compete at the Class 1B and 2B WIAA levels, with multiple state appearances and a state Class 1B boys track and field title in the program's history; coverage runs in the Skagit Valley Herald. The Reformed-tradition framing and CSI accreditation are the structural identity of the school, more so than at the larger interdenominational evangelical schools — for families in the Reformed tradition, Mount Vernon Christian and Lynden Christian are effectively the only two K-12 options in NW Washington.
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