Central Union High School, also known as Central or CUHS, is a four-year public high school in El Centro, California with a diverse student body of more than 1,860 students. It is one of three schools in the Central Union High School District. The school was founded in 1908 and the mascot is the Spartan. In 2007, the state Department of Education named Central a California Distinguished School, in part because of its efforts to close the achievement gap.