Centralia School District should not be confused with Centralia School District (Washington).
| Centralia Elementary School District | |
| Type: | Public |
| Budget: | $44.5 million |
| Established: | 1875 |
| City: | Buena Park |
| Grades: | TK–6 |
| Superintendent: | Norma Martinez |
| Schools: | 8 |
| Students: | 4,044 (2020–2021) |
| Teachers: | 155.0 (FTE) |
| Staff: | 206.95 (FTE) |
| Ratio: | 26.09:1 |
| Address: | 7300 La Palma Ave (temporary location) |
Centralia Elementary School District is a public school district based in Orange County, California, United States.
The Centralia Elementary School District serves Preschool through 6th graders in the cities of Buena Park, Anaheim, and La Palma. All eight schools in the district are award-winning elementary schools.
Established in 1875, the District's eight elementary schools currently serve 4,500 students in the cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, and La Palma. Centralia School District was the first school district in California to provide free textbooks to students, and today is one of only three school districts in Orange County that is not "program improvement". In 2019, the Centralia School District was the first school district in the State of California to offer universal preschool.
According to the 2010 Census, the District's resident population is 55,193 with a demographic of 34% Hispanic, 30% White, 29% Asian, 4% Black, and 3% Other/Mixed Race.
The District is known for their award-winning Food Services program and for having a campus with the largest school-wide standardized test score increase in the State of California between the 2012–13 and 2013–14 school years.
The District is governed by a five-member elected Board of Trustees. In 2014, twenty-year-old Chapman University student Connor Traut was elected to the board of trustees as the youngest Trustee in District history.[1]
Current Trustees are: Henry Charoen, Jerry Flores, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Lamiya Hoque, and Art Montez.[2]