Summary:
ZIP code 55965 in Preston, Minnesota is home to a single elementary school: Fillmore Central Elementary, a PK–6 school with 311 students in the Fillmore Central district. Because it is the only elementary school in the area, there are no local peer schools to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own past performance.
The school's biggest strengths are math and reading. In 2025–2026, 63.3% of students were proficient in math, which is 18.4 points above the state average of 44.9%, and every reported grade level beat the state — 6th grade math was especially strong at 63.4% versus 39.5% statewide. Reading came in at 59.3%, 10.7 points above the state's 48.6%, with 4th grade reading at 68.9% compared with 48.8% statewide. This performance shows up in the school's ratings: it earned 3 stars and ranked in the 66th percentile in 2023–2024, then rose to 4 stars and the 76th percentile in 2024–2025, holding 4 stars and the 74th percentile in 2025–2026 — a top-quartile position among Minnesota elementary schools.
Science is the clear relative weakness. All-grades science proficiency was 20.6% in 2025–2026, about 4.9 points below the state average and down from 27.91% in 2024–2025. Fifth grade is the weakest area overall: its math score of 47.1% is the school's lowest, and 5th grade science sits about 5.3 points below the state. For context, 40.19% of students qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student/teacher ratio was 10.8.
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