Centennial Elementary School

Set in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, Centennial Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, overseen by Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an. It serves 340 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 28 schools in Harrison School District No. 2 in the county of El Paso an (11,938 students total), Centennial Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Centennial Elementary School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 18% White, 17% Black, 10% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, El Paso County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Centennial Elementary School has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 88% of students at Centennial Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above El Paso County's rate of about 42%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Centennial Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.6%, the actual is 17.4%, a residual of +3.8 points.

Around the school, El Paso County reports that median household income runs about $90,363, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, El Paso County runs 245 public schools (combined enrollment of about 114,356 students), of which Centennial Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Carmel Community School, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Centennial Elementary School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 17.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Centennial Elementary School has shrank 35%, going from 526 students in 2018 to 340 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 22% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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