Central

The Central area has two schools: Central Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 6, and Central Junior-Senior High, serving grades 7–12; they enroll 162 and 139 students. The clearest difference is in Science: the elementary school scored 59% in 2025–26, well above the state’s 38%, while the high school scored 31%, below the state.

The schools stand out in different subjects. The high school leads in all-grades ELA, with 49% compared with 43% at the elementary school and 46% statewide—a 6-point school-to-school gap. The elementary school narrowly leads in Math: 37.5% versus 36.9% at the high school, though both are below the state’s 41%. Its Science result is 28 points higher than the high school’s. Grade-level results add important detail: elementary fifth-grade Science was 13 points above the state, but fourth-grade ELA was 24 points below. At the high school, seventh-grade ELA was 12 points above the state, while seventh-grade Math was 6 points below.

Math declined at both schools between 2024–25 and 2025–26: the elementary result fell from 45% to 37%, and the high school’s from 45% to 37%, while the state rose from 39% to 41%. Other subjects moved differently by school: ELA fell 3 points at the elementary school and rose 5 at the high school; Science rose 7 points at the elementary school and fell 17 at the high school. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking also fell at the high school, from 78 to 54 over three years, while the elementary school’s moved from 40 to 41. The high school has a lower student-teacher ratio (8.2 versus 17); free/reduced-lunch rates were similar, at 49% and 50%. Chronic absenteeism was below the state’s 18% at both schools: 12% at the elementary school and 15% at the high school. Because the schools serve different grades, their all-grades results are not perfectly comparable.