Wayzata Central Middle

Wayzata Central Middle is a grades 6–8 school at 305 Vicksburg Ln N in Plymouth, Minnesota, serving 1,342 students as part of the Wayzata Public School District, which ranks 10th of 458 Minnesota districts. It holds a 5-star rating and ranks 15th of 546 Minnesota middle schools (97th percentile), and it has remained in the top 3% for ten recorded years — though it has drifted from 4th–7th place between 2020–21 and 2022–23 to 14th–15th today, while Minnetonka East Middle (3rd) has taken the local top spot.

Proficiency is far above state averages: 68.0% in math and 70.8% in reading, roughly 23 and 22 points above the state. Science is the exception — 28.4%, which is 15.9 points below the district and only 2.9 points above the state, and that gap has widened from about 5–6 points to 10–16 points. Notably, Wayzata East Middle reaches 44.9% in science while serving a higher share of low-income students. Grade-by-grade math and reading results are at or above district levels, so the all-grades rollups look like an aggregation quirk; the grade-8 science deficit shows up in both views.

Subgroup results are strong overall but uneven. English learners rank 3rd of 170 in the state, Hispanic students 5th of 195, and special-education students have held the 91st–92nd percentile for three straight years. Low-income students, however, sit at the 62nd percentile and have slipped three years running, with African American students around the 70th. Central is also the largest nearby middle school, with a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.7 — above every out-of-district peer. Its math proficiency (68.0%) is nearly triple Plymouth Middle's (24.5%) 4.6 miles away, and far above Hopkins West Middle School (29.6%).