High Schools in Fillmore Central

Fillmore Central has just one listed high school: Fillmore Central Senior High, located in Harmony, MN and serving grades 7–12 with 264 students. Because there is only one school in the area, there are no local peers to compare against — the useful comparisons are the school versus its district, Fillmore Central, versus the state of Minnesota, and versus its own prior years. The district profile ranks Fillmore Central 187 of 458 districts, at the 59th percentile with 3 stars.

For parents, the most encouraging news is that students finish. The graduation rate is 98.1%, above the district's 96.3% and well above the state's 84.9%, and the dropout rate is 1.8%, below the state's 4.2%. Middle-school results also stand out: 7th grade reading is 56.5%, 13.0 points above the state's 43.5%, 8th grade reading is 51.6% versus the state's 50.0%, and 8th grade science is 22.6% versus the state's 16.7%. All-grade math and reading also improved from 2024–25 to 2025–26 — math from 23.08% to 29.9% and reading from 36.04% to 41.7% — while state scores dipped slightly.

The concerns are academic, and they concentrate in the upper grades. All-grade proficiency trails the state in math (29.9% vs. 44.9%), reading (41.7% vs. 48.6%), and science (16.7% vs. 25.5%). High school grade-level results are weakest: 11th grade math is 15% vs. the state's 35.3%, 10th grade reading is 22% vs. 42.5%, and Science End of Course is 12.8% vs. 35.0% — a 22.2-point gap. The school's own rank has also slipped, from 32nd percentile and 2 stars in 2023–24 to 15th percentile and 1 star in 2025–26, even as the district shows 3 stars and 59th percentile. With roughly 44 students per grade, single-year swings should be read as directional. Free/reduced lunch is 30.3% and the student-teacher ratio is 12.8.