Summary:
Zip code 81152 in San Luis, Colorado is served by a single school, Centennial School, an alternative PK–12 institution within the Centennial School District No. R-1 that enrolls 186 students and operates as the sole educational provider for the entire community.
Centennial School, with a student-teacher ratio of 12.1, serves a student body where 91.4% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting an extremely high-poverty community. The most urgent concern is chronic absenteeism: 51.5% of students are chronically absent, nearly double the state rate of 28.4%. Academically, proficiency rates lag well below state averages across all tested subjects. In English Language Arts, only 22.2% of students are proficient compared to the state's 44.7%, while math proficiency sits at 18.2% versus 35.9% statewide, and 8th-grade science proficiency is 18.8% versus 36.4%. On a positive note, ELA proficiency improved from 16.4% to 22.2% year over year, a gain of 5.8 percentage points that may signal early progress.
Despite these challenges, the school graduates 83.3% of its students, only 2.3 points below the state average of 85.6%, while its dropout rate of 1.9% is just slightly above the state's 1.6%. This suggests Centennial School is effective at guiding students to graduation even amid significant socioeconomic stress, low proficiency, and high absenteeism. Because the school is the only one in its district, all district-level metrics mirror the school's numbers, making benchmarking straightforward but leaving no local comparison point. For parents, the key takeaway is that Centennial School offers small class sizes and a path to graduation, but attendance and academic support are critical areas needing attention.
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