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.