Centennial Elementary

Set in Fresno, California, Centennial Elementary is a sprawling K-5 school, one of the schools within Fresno Unified. It serves 741 students across grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 59% bigger than typical.

Fresno Unified runs 100 schools in total, collectively educating 67,873 students. Centennial Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Centennial Elementary records that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 11% Asian, 6% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Fresno County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Centennial Elementary logs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Centennial Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Centennial Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.9%; this one delivers 20.6%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Fresno County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Centennial Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Monarch River Academy, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Centennial Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Centennial Elementary has ticked down 5%, going from 778 students in 2018 to 741 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 67% to 75%. Class-load math has fell: from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

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