Central Senior High

As a middle-of-the-pack four-year high school in NORWOOD YOUNG AMERICA, Minnesota, Central Senior High educates 337 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within CENTRAL PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Central Senior High is one of 3 schools operated by CENTRAL PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 966 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Central Senior High shows that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 18% of students at Central Senior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Central Senior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.3%, the actual is 55.7%, a residual of +0.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Carver County indicate the typical household earns roughly $125,946 per year, roughly 50% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Carver County runs 57 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,076 students), of which Central Senior High is one.

The closest other public school is CENTRAL MIDDLE, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Central Senior High at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 56.0%.

Central Senior High operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 346 students in 2018 compared to 337 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 91% to 83% across the same window.

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