FILLMORE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY

FILLMORE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY is an elementary school of mid-sized scale in PRESTON, Minnesota, part of FILLMORE CENTRAL, educateing 311 students in grades pre-K through 6.

FILLMORE CENTRAL comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 575 students; FILLMORE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FILLMORE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY logs that nearly all students (91%) are White. Other groups include 7% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FILLMORE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY sits in the top 10% of Minnesota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 43.5%; actual is 57.1%, +13.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Fillmore County put median household earnings sit near $77,512, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. FILLMORE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY is one of 15 public schools in Fillmore County (combined enrollment of about 2,946 students).

LANESBORO ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 6.4 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, FILLMORE CENTRAL ELEMENTARY comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.1%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 367 students in 2018 compared to 311 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 1% to 7% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.