High · California

Centennial High

Free meals for all

Centennial High, a public high school in Compton, California: grades 9–12, 908 students, 20.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Compton Unified.

Size and class size

Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.

Students
908
Teachers (FTE)
45.1
Students per teacher
20.1
Grades
9–12
High

More students per teacher than 57% of high schools in California

Median 19.1 · 2,120 schools compared

More students per teacher than 83% of high schools in the US

Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared

Larger than 62% of high schools in California

Median 462 · 2,126 schools compared

Larger than 72% of high schools in the US

Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared

State test results

No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.

What it offers

Grades
High · Grades 9–12
Type
District school · Regular
Instruction
Some virtual classes
Meals
Free breakfast and lunch for every student
Area
Large suburb

Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Compton Unified.

Location

Address
2606 North Central Ave., Compton, CA 90222
Phone
(310)635-2715
City or town
Compton

Nearby high schools

The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

SchoolGradesStudentsStudents / teacher
9–1254619.4
New Designs Charter School-WattsCharterFree meals for all
6–1219417.0
9–1255630.8
King/Drew Medical Magnet HighAlternativeFree meals for all
9–121,38119.5
Animo Compton CharterCharterFree meals for all
6–1237215.6
Benjamin Banneker Career and Transition CenterSpecial educationFree meals for all
1219610.2

Sources

Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.

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