Central Education Center

Central Education Center operates as a very small elementary-level community in STEWARTVILLE, Minnesota, one of the schools within STEWARTVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 41 students spanning grade pre-K. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so Central Education Center sits 88% leaner than that benchmark.

Central Education Center is one of 5 schools operated by STEWARTVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 1,976 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Central Education Center records that nearly all students (88%) are White. The remainder looks like 2% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Olmsted County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Central Education Center has 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 5.4:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at Central Education Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Olmsted County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $95,406 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Olmsted County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students), Central Education Center is one campus in the mix.

STEWARTVILLE SENIOR HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Central Education Center.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Central Education Center has expanded 32%, going from 31 students in 2018 to 41 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 2% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 6.4:1 in 2018 to 5.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.