Schools in Zip Code 55038

ZIP code 55038 contains four schools serving about 1,588 students: three elementary schools — Centerville Elementary, North Star Elementary, and Oneka Elementary School — plus one small high school program, White Bear Transition Plus Program. They are split between two districts: Centennial Public School District, which covers Centerville only, and White Bear Lake School District, which covers the other three.

Centerville Elementary is the academic leader, with 65.6% math and 60.6% reading proficiency — well above both district and state — and the highest rank in the area (233 of 869, 73rd percentile, 4 stars). Its trend is the concern: it slipped from the 95th percentile in 2023-2024 to the 73rd in 2025-2026. North Star Elementary is the only school moving up, rising from the 58th to the 64th percentile, with math at 58.0% and reading at 54.3%. Oneka Elementary School moved the other way, falling from the 64th to the 50th percentile, and posts the lowest elementary math (48.5%) and reading (49.8%) results.

Two patterns stand out across the area. First, science is a shared weak spot: all three elementary schools score below the state's 25.5%, with Centerville lowest at 18.5%. Second, math proficiency drops as students move up the grades — for example, Centerville goes from 79.4% in 3rd grade to 50.0% in 5th, and the same decline appears at North Star and Oneka. Class size alone does not explain results: Oneka has the smallest elementary classes (13.6 students per teacher) yet the weakest outcomes, while White Bear Transition Plus Program serves a very small, high-poverty group of 51 students in grades 11–12; its test scores are suppressed by the state, so its academics cannot be judged from this data.