CENTENNIAL EL

CENTENNIAL EL, a mid-sized elementary campus in PLANO, Texas, run under PLANO ISD, instructs 462 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 73 schools in PLANO ISD (46,612 students total), CENTENNIAL EL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, CENTENNIAL EL lists that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 34% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 9% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Collin County as a whole is about 54% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting CENTENNIAL EL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Collin County's rate of about 30%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CENTENNIAL EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.3%, the actual is 74.3%, a residual of +7.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Collin County shows median household income runs about $121,600, roughly 56% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Collin County runs 338 public schools (combined enrollment of about 227,575 students), of which CENTENNIAL EL is one.

The closest other public school is HIGHTOWER EL, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CENTENNIAL EL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 552 students in 2018 compared to 462 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 45% to 34% across the same window.

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