Centennial High School

Centennial High School is a heavily attended 9-12 campus in CIRCLE PINES, Minnesota, one of the schools within Centennial Public School District. The school serves 2,067 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 457% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Within Centennial Public School District, which oversees 15 schools and 6,851 students, Centennial High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Centennial High School reports that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.3:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Anoka County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Centennial High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of +2.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Anoka County indicate the typical household earns roughly $101,869 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Anoka County's 145 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students), Centennial High School is one campus in the mix.

Project Search is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Centennial High School. On composite proficiency, Centennial High School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 53.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Centennial High School's enrollment has edged up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 2,006 (now 2,067). White enrollment moved from 84% to 71% across the same window.

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