Centennial Elementary School

Located at 3100 Martin Rd, in Mount Vernon, Washington, Centennial Elementary School is an average-sized elementary-level community that instructs 430 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Mount Vernon School District.

Centennial Elementary School is one of 14 schools operated by Mount Vernon School District, a district that works with 6,326 students overall.

Demographically, Centennial Elementary School lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder consists of 30% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Skagit County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.3:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Skagit County (around 56%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Centennial Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.8%; this one delivers 33.5%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Skagit County put median household earnings sit near $89,263, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Skagit County runs 54 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,298 students), of which Centennial Elementary School is one.

Mount Vernon Open Doors is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Centennial Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Centennial Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 30.3%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Centennial Elementary School's enrollment has declined 21% since 2018, when it stood at 542 (now 430). Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 70% to 65%.

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