The Centennial Middle School was completed in 1997 on a 55
acre plot at a cost of $35 million. The 265,000 square foot
complex was designed by Armstrong, Torseth, Skold and Rydeen
to house approximately 1800 students in an environment that
emphasizes middle school design through three wings holding
6th, 7th and 8th grade students. Each of the wings provide
four teams access to special education resource rooms, science
lab and classroom spaces and technology use to give students
and staff the most current resources available. In 1999,
Learning by Design, an architectural publication, awarded
Centennial Middle School the Grand Prize Award as one of the
best school designs in the nation.
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