Centennial High

Centennial High, a well-populated 9-12 campus in Bakersfield, California, overseen by Kern High, educates 2,212 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Centennial High sits 164% larger than that benchmark.

Within Kern High, which oversees 25 schools and 42,814 students, Centennial High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Centennial High records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% White, 9% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Kern County as a whole is about 57% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly less Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Centennial High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Kern County's rate of about 76%.

With demographic context factored in, Centennial High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 48.8%, a residual of -4.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kern County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,210 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Discovery Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Centennial High. On composite proficiency, Centennial High comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Centennial High's enrollment has ticked up 9% since 2018, when it stood at 2,023 (now 2,212). Over the same period, the White share fell from 56% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 today.

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