Summary:
Zip code 62837 has one listed middle school, Center Street Elementary School, serving grades 4–8, so families are considering one local school rather than choosing among several. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades ELA proficiency was 63%, compared with 56% statewide, while math was 32%, compared with 40% statewide; its grade 5 and grade 8 science results were also above state levels. The most important finding is that ELA and science are strengths relative to the state, but overall math remains a clear weakness.
There is no separate leading or trailing school in this one-school list; within Center Street, grade 7 was strongest in both ELA, at 67%, and math, at 45%. Grade 6 had the lowest ELA result, at 58%, and grade 5 had the lowest math result, at 22%. Math performance varies considerably by grade: grades 4–6 were below state results, while grades 7–8 were above them. The school’s 2025–2026 science results were 54% in grade 5 versus 48% statewide and 53% in grade 8 versus 52% statewide.
ELA improved sharply, while math barely changed: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Center Street ELA rose 14 points, from 49% to 63%, as the state rose 3 points; math increased by less than 1 point, from 32% to 32%, while the state gained 1 point. Grade 8 science also rose 16 points, moving from below the state to above it. SchoolDigger placed the school at the 51st percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 64th percentile in 2023–2024. As context, in 2024–2025 the school enrolled 296 students, had a student–teacher ratio of 12.4, and 67% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Chronic absenteeism was 12.5%, close to the district’s 12.8% and below the state’s 23.5%.
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