Centralia Middle School

Centralia Middle School operates as a cozy intermediate school in Centralia, Washington, operated by Centralia School District. Current enrollment sits at 479 students spanning grades 7 through 8.

Centralia Middle School is one of 9 schools operated by Centralia School District, a district that enrolls 3,313 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Centralia Middle School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 44% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Lewis County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Centralia Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Lewis County shows median household earnings sit near $74,796, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Lewis County runs 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,548 students), of which Centralia Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Centralia School District SpEd Pre-school, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Centralia Middle School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Centralia Middle School has fell 3%, going from 492 students in 2018 to 479 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 61% to 44%.

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