Thirteen Central Academy students have been selected as finalists in The Iowa State Bar Association’s “Know Your Constitution” Project. They are part of one hundred finalists selected from the more than 1,000 students across Iowa who participated in the contest. They are students of Dan Swanson. Click the headline to read more.

Students from Central Academy have won first place in the “Math Madness” AMC/Interstellar High School Mathematics National Championship, sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America. The competition began with nearly 10,000 students from 500 schools across the nation. Click the headline to read more about Central’s national math title.

Best Of Kiln Central Academy Des Moines Public Schools We currently do not have a space for exhibiting student pottery but we would like to share with you some of our work!  Enjoy! Britta Roppe Rylie Lawrence Jamie …

173 students who take AP classes at DMPS earned honors from the College Board, the second most ever recorded by the school district. Sixteen students earned the prestigious AP National Scholar Award. Students from East, Hoover, Lincoln, North and Roosevelt, as well as Central Academy, were represented among the honorees. Click the headline to read more.

Central Academy was the top team at the 41st Annual High School Mathematics Contest, held recently at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. In fact, our students captured more than half of the individual honors presented at the contest. Click the headline to read more about another success by one of the nation’s top high school math programs.

Congratulations to our own Brian Reece, a finalist for the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching! In fact, this is the second year in a row that two of Iowa’s three math finalists for the PAEMST award teach at DMPS. To learn more about Mr. Reece’s work and the award, click the above headline.

This Thursday, October 10, an informative meeting will be held with parents and students to discuss a Spring Break trip to Panama in 2014. It will be held in the sponsoring teacher’s room, Mrs. Snyder’s in 2007 at …

Central Academy math students earned 1st place in the Great Plains Math League contest held in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, October 3.  Twenty-nine of Central’s thirty-nine participants qualified for the state math championships to be held in April …

Eleven DMPS seniors, who attend Central Academy, have been chosen as 2014 Semi-Finalists for the National Merit Scholarship, placing them among the top young scholars in the state and nation. More than 450 students have earned this honor over the past 40 years. See how these young scholars are by clicking here.

Each year, roughly one out of every 2,500 students who take the ACT college entrance exam earn a perfect composite score of 36. This year, two members of that select group – Edel Aron and Max Pilcher – attend classes at Central Academy. Click the above headline to read more about this rare feat.