Centralia School District
| Centralia Elementary School District | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
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6625 La Palma Ave. Buena Park, CA 90620 North Orange County, California United States | |
| District information | |
| Grades | K through 6th |
| Established | 1875 |
| Superintendent | Norma Martinez |
| Schools | 8 |
| Budget | $44.5 million |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 4,500 |
| Teachers | 185 |
| Other information | |
| Website |
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Centralia Elementary School District is a public school district based in Orange County, California, United States. It includes the following schools:
- Buena Terra
- Centralia
- Danbrook
- Dysinger
- Los Coyotes
- Miller
- Raymond Temple
- San Marino
History
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."
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 most-recently 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 12/13 and 13/14 school years.
Board of Trustees
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: President Connor Traut, Clerk Art Montez, Clerk Pro Tem Steve Harris, Henry Charoen, and Dennis Salts. [2]
| Election Results, November 4, 2014[3] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Connor Traut | 4,764 | 25.1 | |
| Republican | Henry Charoen | 3,939 | 20.8 | |
| Democratic | Art Montez | 3,763 | 19.8 | |
| Republican | Kevin Sequeira | 3,635 | 19.2 | |
| Republican | Irv Trinkle (incumbent) | 2,862 | 15.1 | |
| Total votes | 18,963 | 100 | ||
| Voter turnout | 40.0% | |||
References
- ↑ "Bravo: Connor Traut elected to school board". Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ "Board of Trustees". Centralia School District. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ "Orange County General Election Results November 4, 2014". Retrieved 28 January 2015.
Unless otherwise indicated, all information in this article is based on the Centralia School District's website, last accessed January 28, 2015.
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