Improve computer assisted learning in software and hardware to enhance student learning. A general description of the school, its setting, and the population it serves. Centennial High School is located near the center of a community defined by its attendance boundaries which include Imperial Highway on the North, Rosecrans Avenue on the South, Alameda Street on the East, and Main Street on the West. Portions of Redondo Beach Boulevard and other streets on the periphery of Compton, Los Angeles, and the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County make up the general attendance area of Centennial High School as outlined by the Compton Unified School District Map. Centennial's student population of 1310 has made a dramatic shift from predominately African American population to almost an even division between Latin and African American students.
Many students live with foster parents or guardians and a few reside in group homes.
Centennial students exhibit a high transient rate that is compounded by some of our Hispanic families leaving for long periods of time due to work or family related situations. Centennial students' dropout rate is similar to the other high schools in the district. American Alaskan Asian Pacific Islander Filipino Hispanic Black White Not of Hisp. Centennial has an inordinate dropout rate in the ninth grade class. An average incoming ninth grade class is well over five hundred fifty students and decreases dramatically each year the students progress toward the twelfth grade.