Summary:
Centralia Elementary is a public elementary school in Anaheim, California, serving 441 students from kindergarten to 6th grade. The school faces several key challenges, including a high percentage of Hispanic and low-income students, increasing chronic absenteeism, and declining test scores and statewide rankings.
Centralia Elementary has a significantly higher percentage of Hispanic students (80.95%) compared to nearby schools, which range from 40.68% to 82.93% Hispanic students. The school has also experienced a sharp increase in chronic absenteeism, rising from 9.3% in 2017-2018 to 32.1% in 2022-2023, notably higher than the 15.2% to 31.7% range of nearby schools. While Centralia Elementary's 6th-grade English Language Arts proficiency rate of 59.02% in 2022-2023 was higher than the state average of 44.16%, the school's overall performance in ELA and Mathematics lags behind the nearby schools and the state averages. Additionally, Centralia Elementary has a very high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, ranging from 86.57% to 88.44% over the past three years, significantly higher than the 56.21% to 93.78% range of nearby schools.
Centralia Elementary's statewide ranking has steadily declined over the past decade, from 1,855 out of 5,390 California elementary schools in 2011-2012 to 4,158 out of 5,848 in 2022-2023. The school's performance on various student subgroups, such as female students, male students, Hispanic students, English Language Learners, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, is generally lower than the state averages for those subgroups. While Centralia Elementary shares the same school district as some of the nearby schools, its performance lags behind many of them, particularly Buena Terra Elementary, which outperforms Centralia Elementary across multiple metrics.
Detail:
Public K-6
District:
Centralia Elementary
SchoolDigger Rank:
4170th of 5,868 California Elementary Schools
Per Pupil Expenditures: $9,371
Students who attend Centralia Elementary usually attend:
Student/teacher ratio: 23.2
Number of students: 441
Racial breakdown:
Hispanic:
81.0%
Asian:
6.8%
White:
4.5%
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African American:
3.6%
Two or more races:
3.4%
Pacific Islander:
0.5%
American Indian:
0.2%
Free/discounted lunch recipients: 88.4%
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