Centennial Middle School

Centennial Middle School is a junior high of average-sized scale in Snohomish, Washington, run under Snohomish School District, teacheing 734 students in grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 577 students per school, that is 27% above typical.

Snohomish School District comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 9,732 students; Centennial Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Centennial Middle School reports that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Snohomish County (around 41%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Centennial Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 61.3%; actual is 39.3%, a gap of -21.9 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Snohomish County indicate median household earnings sit near $111,246, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Snohomish County runs 227 public schools (combined enrollment of about 118,688 students), of which Centennial Middle School is one.

Glenwood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 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 Middle School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 56.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Centennial Middle School's enrollment has ticked down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 789 (now 734). Over the same period, the White share fell from 79% to 71%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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