Best Public Schools in Centerville, MN

Centerville, Minnesota has one school in this listing: Centerville Elementary, a K–5 elementary school with 607 students in the Centennial Public School District; no middle, high, or alternative schools appear in the city data, so these insights cover only the elementary level.

For parents, the school’s clearest strengths are math and reading. In 2025–2026, all-grade math proficiency was 65.6%, above the district’s 56.5% and well above the state’s 44.9%, while all-grade reading was 60.6%, above the district’s 56.7% and the state’s 48.6%. Third grade was especially strong: 79.4% in math and 60.7% in reading. Fifth-grade reading was also 65.4%, above the state’s 54.5%. By contrast, science is the weak spot: 18.5% proficient in all grades and in 5th grade, below the district’s 28.6% all-grade and 31.7% 5th-grade rates, and below the state’s 25.5% and 25.9%. Because all-grade and 5th-grade science are identical, this looks mainly like a 5th-grade science concern. Fourth and 5th grade math and reading were below district averages but still above state averages.

Statewide, the school’s rank has slipped: 45th of 881 in 2023–2024 (95th percentile, 5 stars), 112th of 872 in 2024–2025 (87th percentile, 4 stars), and 233rd of 869 in 2025–2026 (73rd percentile, 4 stars). It remains above the state median, but the trend is downward. This matches year-over-year test changes: math fell 7.81 points, science fell 5.97 points, and reading was nearly flat, down 0.82 points. One caution: reading was labeled MCA-III in 2024–2025 and MCA-IV in 2025–2026, so that reading comparison may not be perfectly like-for-like. The district is high-performing—ranked 58th of 458 districts, at the 87th percentile with 4 stars—so the school’s current 73rd percentile is below the district’s overall percentile even though the school still exceeds the state in math and reading. Other context: the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch rate was 14.66%, and the student-teacher ratio was 16.3. Overall, the school is a strong math and reading school with a standout 3rd-grade cohort, but science, recent declines, and the downward rank trend are the main watch items.