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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Centennial High School

Circle Pines, Minnesota

NCES ID
270810000334
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Centennial High School is a public high school in Circle Pines, Minnesota, run by Centennial Public School District. It enrols 1,982 students — the 1869th largest of 2,771 public schools in Minnesota.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

1,982students

1869th nationally, tied with 1

Teachers

63.0FTE

8621st nationally, tied with 335

Students per teacher

31.5students

92697th nationally, tied with 23

Free or reduced-price lunch

24.1%percent

74178th nationally, tied with 72

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Centennial Public School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Centennial High School1,982 students
  2. 2Centennial Middle1,529 students
  3. 3Blue Heron Elementary761 students
  4. 4Rice Lake Elementary666 students
  5. 5Centerville Elementary575 students
  6. 6Centennial Elementary516 students
  7. 7Golden Lake Elementary416 students
  8. 8Early Childhood Center128 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Minnesota median across 2,771 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+558.5%
  • Teachers+200.0%
  • Students per teacher+115.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−50.7%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.