Central Heights

Central Heights has two schools: Central Heights Elementary serves PK–5 and enrolls 239 students, while Central Heights High serves grades 6–12 and enrolls 300. Because the schools serve different, nonoverlapping grades, their all-grades scores are not a same-grade comparison. The most striking area finding is the sharp divide in science: Elementary is 35 percentage points above the state, while High is 10 points below.

Central Heights Elementary leads the two-school group in all three 2025–26 all-grades subjects, scoring 15 percentage points higher than Central Heights High in ELA, 22 points higher in math, and 45 points higher in science. Elementary is also above state results in all three subjects; its strongest grade-level results are in grade 5, where it exceeds the state by 17 points in ELA, 28 in math, and 27 in science. High is below the state in all three all-grades subjects, and its math results are below state results in each reported grade—by 19 points in grade 6, 2 in grade 7, 11 in grade 8, and 12 in grade 10. Its clearest grade-level strength is grade 7 ELA, 14 points above the state.

Recent results show contrasting changes in science: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Elementary rose 15 percentage points while High fell 22; High’s ELA improved by 5 points, but its math dropped by 6. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentile also fell more sharply for High, from the 72nd percentile in 2023–24 to the 25th in 2025–26, compared with Elementary’s 69th to 65th percentile. Attendance is a positive measure for both schools: chronic absenteeism was 12% at Elementary and 12% at High, versus 18% statewide. Their student–teacher ratios are similar—11.8 at Elementary and 11.4 at High—and both schools’ free/reduced-lunch rates round to 53%; these context figures do not explain the differences in results.