Centralia Beauty College
For-profit College in Centralia, WA.
- ✓ 3-year loan default 0.0% — below national benchmark
Academics
This institution reports no six-year graduation rate. The federal measure only follows first-time, full-time students, so schools built around part-time or transfer enrollment often fall outside it entirely. First-year retention of 80% shows the cohort holds together through the hardest year. Part-time students actually return at a higher rate, 91%, which is unusual and suggests the school is built for them. At 15:1, students get materially more instructor contact than at a typical public university. Being a for-profit short-program school is the single most useful context for these numbers — the sector's spread is wide enough that the school-level figures matter more than usual.
Financial Aid
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · grant and loan rates against 74 degree- or certificate-seeking undergraduates
At $9,177 a year on average after grant aid, cost is low here relative to most undergraduate institutions. The gap between the $0–30k and $110k+ bands is narrow ($7,278 versus $14,913), meaning aid is not strongly need-weighted. 26% get grants, which means the net price above will not apply to most applicants. 34% of students take federal loans, a middling borrowing rate.
Entering first-year students
A different, smaller group than the rates above: full-time students in their first year of college anywhere. The grant series here also excludes the "other sources" counted in the all-undergraduate figure, so the two are not comparable.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24 · 21 students
Net price by family income
The same students as the headline above, limited to those who received Title IV federal aid — a narrower group, with a lower overall average. IPEDS publishes no combined figure across these bands, so they should not be averaged into one.
| Family income band | Average net price |
|---|---|
| $0–30k | $7,278 |
| $30–48k | $12,890 |
| $48–75k | — |
| $75–110k | $14,913 |
| $110k+ | $14,913 |
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Federal student loans went to 25 of these 74 students, totalling $160,122 — an average of $6,405 each.
IPEDS Student Financial Aid · 2023-24
Local housing costs
Typical rents near campus (Lewis County) — budget these against any cost-of-attendance housing estimate.
HUD Fair Market Rents (40th-percentile gross rent incl. utilities) · FY2026