Summary:
Midlothian School District 143 has three elementary schools: Central Park and Kolmar serve kindergarten through grade 8, while Springfield serves kindergarten through grade 5. Enrollment ranges from 311 at Springfield to 640 at Central Park. The main takeaway is that all three schools are below state proficiency levels in the latest results: the schools’ average is 42% in ELA and 23% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide, while science averages are 30% in grade 5 and 34% in grade 8, versus 48% and 52% statewide.
No school leads in every subject. Kolmar has the highest all-grades ELA result at 43.8%, compared with 41.1% at Central Park and 40.9% at Springfield; Springfield is lowest, 15 points below the state. Springfield leads all-grades math at 29%, ahead of Central Park at 22% and Kolmar at 19%, though it is still 10 points below the state. Central Park leads science, scoring 34% in grade 5 and 39% in grade 8; the grade-8 comparison is with Kolmar, which scored 29%. School-specific strengths also appear by grade: Kolmar’s grade-8 ELA result is 60%, just 3 points below the state, while Springfield leads grade-5 math at 30%, 6 points below the state.
Recent results show different trajectories: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Kolmar gained 7 points in ELA and 3 in math, and Central Park gained 3 in ELA and 1 in math; Springfield fell 9 points in ELA and 6 in math even as state results rose. Science improved substantially at Central Park in both grades 5 and 8, but Springfield’s grade-5 result declined by 2 points. SchoolDigger gives all three schools one star, with percentile rankings of 17 for Central Park, 18 for Kolmar and 19 for Springfield. For context, the 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 68% at Central Park, 65% at Kolmar and 73% at Springfield; student-teacher ratios ranged from 10.4 at Springfield to 13.7 at Central Park. All-grades comparisons can reflect different grade spans, and some grade-level results are suppressed.
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