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 1,800 students in an environment that emphasizes middle school design. The building has three wings that hold 6^th, 7^th and 8^th grade students.  Each of the wings provides four teams’ access to special education resource rooms, science labs, 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.