Centennial Middle

Centennial Middle is a mid-tier junior high in PROVO, Utah, one of the schools within Provo District. The school serves 1,073 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% bigger than the state mean of about 831.

Provo District comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 13,897 students; Centennial Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Centennial Middle shows that White students make up the majority at 60%; the rest comes out to 27% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Pacific Islander, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Centennial Middle records 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. The state averages about 21.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 31% of students at Centennial Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Utah County runs at roughly 22%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Centennial Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.5%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Utah County put median household earnings sit near $100,671, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Utah County's 202 public schools (combined enrollment of about 164,467 students), Centennial Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Rock Canyon School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Centennial Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Centennial Middle at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 51.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Centennial Middle's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,116 (now 1,073). The White share of enrollment shrank from 69% to 60% over that span.

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