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Centennial High School (Bakersfield, California)

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School type
  
Public

NCES District ID
  
0619540

Dean
  
Ryan Coleman

Phone
  
+1 661-588-8601

District
  
Kern High School District

Opened
  
1993

NCES School ID
  
061954002041

Principal
  
Dean Juola

Number of students
  
1,800

Founded
  
1993

Address
  
8601 Hageman Rd, Bakersfield, CA 93312, USA

Profiles

Centennial High School is a public high school located in Bakersfield, California, United States. Its opening in 1993 marked the 100-year anniversary of the Kern High School District. Centennial is the home of many nationally recognized extra-curricular academic programs, including Virtual Business and We The People, both of which have finished ranked in the top five nationally in the school's history. As of 2011, Centennial has an API score of 841, the highest in the Kern High School District, surpassing Stockdale High's API score.

Centennial's athletic teams are known as the Centennial Golden Hawks and wear the school's colors of red, white, and gold. As part of the Southwest Yosemite League, the Golden Hawks compete in football, baseball, boys' and girls' soccer and basketball, track & field, cross country, women's volleyball, boys' and girls' tennis, swim, and dive. The women's volleyball team won the state championship in 1996. They also won the valley championship in 2010. The football team went undefeated in league play for the first 10 years of the program.

Notable alumni

  • Cody Kessler, NFL quarterback
  • Megan Langenfeld, softball player
  • Jarret Martin, minor league baseball player
  • Brent Morel, baseball player
  • Jared Norris, NFL linebacker
  • Grace Moore, Civil rights attorney, activist, and leader.
  • References

    Centennial High School (Bakersfield, California) Wikipedia