Centennial Elementary

Centennial Elementary is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in Bakersfield, California, operated by Rosedale Union Elementary, with 576 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 24% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Rosedale Union Elementary runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 6,202 students. Centennial Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Centennial Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 39% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial.

On the resource side, Centennial Elementary shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Centennial Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Kern County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Centennial Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.2%, the actual is 48.5%, a residual of -10.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Kern County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kern County's 279 public schools (combined enrollment of about 197,431 students), Centennial Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Rosedale Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Centennial Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 50.0%.

Centennial Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Centennial Elementary has climbed 19%, going from 485 students in 2018 to 576 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 62% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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