# Centennial High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield

---

## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `061954002041`
- **School name**: Centennial High
- **Location**: Bakersfield, CA 93312
- **Address**: 8601 Hageman Rd.
- **District**: Kern High (LEAID `0619540`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 35.39884, -119.09738
- **Phone**: (661)588-8601
- **Website**: http://centennial.kernhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q5059148 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_High_School_(Bakersfield,_California)
- **Founded**: 1993

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 2,212
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 87
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 25.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 44.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: CA Dashboard
- **Year**: 2024
- **Overall rating**: Green
- **Indicators**:
  - elpi: Orange
  - math: Yellow
  - college_career: Green
  - ela: Green
  - graduation: Blue

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 60.1% proficient — 487 tested
- **ELA (CA SBAC) colour-derived**: 66.0% proficient
- **Math (CA SBAC)**: 52.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 91.1% (cohort of 593)
- **2021**: 93.0% (cohort of 497)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 52

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 7.1% (156 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.1% (2 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 35.3%
- **Black/African American**: 7.3%
- **Asian**: 2.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 50.4%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.9%
- **Two or more races**: 2.2%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 43.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 9.9% — 222 students
- **English Learners**: 2.1% — 46 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 80 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 38 students
- **Autism**: 24 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 15 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 12 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 5 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 4 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,244
- **Federal share**: $1,421
- **State + local share**: $14,823
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,237
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $19,038,145
- **Federal share**: 11.6%
- **State share**: 63.4%
- **Local share**: 24.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $7,976,157

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $89,978
- **Poverty rate**: 9.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 34.7%
- **Unemployment**: 4.2%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,731
- **Foreign-born residents**: 11.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 19.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 20.6 miles (BROWN BRYANT INC ARVIN PLANT)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 23
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.38 miles (PROPOSED VALLEY OAKS CHARTER SCHOOL EXPANSION)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: BAKERSFIELD, CITY OF
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.9442 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 3.5 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Liberty High** — 2.9 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.09%)
- **Frontier High** — 3.1 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.09%)
- **Stockdale High** — 5.2 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.09%)
- **Ridgeview High** — 8.7 mi away, 0.08% (this school: 0.09%)
- **Nueva Continuation High** — 14.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 0.09%)

### ela proficiency
- **Discovery Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 65.2% (this school: 63.05%)
- **Veterans Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 66.95% (this school: 63.05%)
- **Stockdale Elementary** — 3.4 mi away, 66.7% (this school: 63.05%)
- **Downtown Elementary** — 4.8 mi away, 68.45% (this school: 63.05%)
- **Highgate Elementary** — 5.1 mi away, 70.05% (this school: 63.05%)

### graduation rate
- **Liberty High** — 2.9 mi away, 95.4% (this school: 91.1%)
- **Frontier High** — 3.1 mi away, 97.2% (this school: 91.1%)
- **Stockdale High** — 5.2 mi away, 94.5% (this school: 91.1%)
- **Independence High** — 8.1 mi away, 92.8% (this school: 91.1%)
- **Shafter High** — 12.2 mi away, 91.5% (this school: 91.1%)

### math proficiency
- **Discovery Elementary** — 0.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **William B. Bimat Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Veterans Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 80% (this school: 52%)
- **American Elementary** — 2.6 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)
- **Norris Elementary** — 2.8 mi away, 66% (this school: 52%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/centennial-high-bakersfield/workforce

---
*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

*Canonical cross-domain architecture: WhatSchool.ai · Spill.org · CourseMap.org · WhatCareer.net*
