Summary:
Preston, Minnesota, has one school in the data—Fillmore Central Elementary, a PK–6 elementary school with 311 students—and no listed middle, high, or alternative schools, so the local picture is limited to elementary grades. It belongs to the Fillmore Central district, ranked 187th of 458 Minnesota districts, at the 59th percentile with 3 stars.
For parents, the school’s strongest subjects are math and reading. In 2025–2026, all-grades math was 63.3% proficient, above the district’s 48.6% and the state’s 44.9%; reading was 59.3%, above the district’s 51.2% and the state’s 48.6%. In 2024–2025, math was 60.0%, reading 61.67%, and science 27.91%, with science slightly above the state then. By 2025–2026, science fell to 20.6%, above the district’s 17.4% but below the state’s 25.5%, a drop of 7.31 points. Grade-level highlights in 2025–2026 include 6th-grade math at 63.4% vs. the state’s 39.5% (+23.9 points), 4th-grade reading at 68.9% vs. 48.8% (+20.1), and 4th-grade math at 68.2% vs. 55.2% (+13.0). Third-grade reading exactly matched the state at 46.8%, while 5th-grade science was 20.6% vs. the state’s 25.9% (−5.3).
The school’s rank history is mostly positive: it improved from 299th of 881 schools (66th percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 206th of 872 (76th percentile, 4 stars) in 2024–2025, then slipped slightly to 225th of 869 (74th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026. Math and reading remain consistent strengths, math improved while the state slightly declined, and reading dipped but stayed well above state averages. Science is the clear area to watch. Contextually, enrollment is 311, the free/reduced lunch rate was 40.19% in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 10.8. The main limitation is that Preston’s data includes only this one elementary school, so secondary outcomes cannot be reviewed here.
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