Summary:
Centralia School District has two high schools serving grades 9–12 in the Centralia, Washington area: the larger, traditional Centralia High School and the smaller Futurus High School. Together, they enroll about 1,051 students, with Centralia serving approximately 941 and Futurus about 110. The schools have very different sizes, staffing patterns, and outcomes, so families should consider both overall performance and each school’s educational context.
Centralia High School is the stronger overall performer in the available data. Its graduation rate was 76.9%, compared with 50.0% at Futurus High School, and its student–teacher ratio was substantially lower, 20.2 versus 44.0. Centralia also exceeded the district in 2025–2026 English language arts and science proficiency. However, math is a significant concern: only 21.03% of students were proficient, below both the district and state rates, and math proficiency declined 8.16 percentage points from the prior year. Centralia’s graduation rate was above the district rate but remained below the statewide rate, while its dropout rate was higher than both Futurus’s and the state’s.
Futurus High School has the district’s most urgent graduation challenge, but it also showed encouraging science growth. Science proficiency increased from 18.75% to 36.36% in one year, slightly exceeding the district’s all-grades result. Its lower reported dropout rate does not explain the much lower graduation rate, so families and district leaders may want to examine credit completion, transfers, attendance, extended enrollment, and alternative graduation pathways. Futurus serves a smaller student body with a higher share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and its 2025–2026 ELA and math results were suppressed, meaning those outcomes are unknown rather than zero. Overall, Centralia offers stronger reported outcomes, while Futurus warrants closer attention to graduation support and continued monitoring of its science improvement.
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