Prairie Heights Sr High School

Prairie Heights Sr High School, a tight-knit secondary school in LaGrange, Indiana, run under Prairie Heights Community Sch Corp, educates 432 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 47% smaller than the state mean of about 816.

Prairie Heights Community Sch Corp comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,346 students; Prairie Heights Sr High School is among them.

Demographically, Prairie Heights Sr High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest comes out to 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 40% of students at Prairie Heights Sr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for LaGrange County put the typical household earns roughly $84,487 per year, 12% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Prairie Heights Sr High School is one of 13 public schools in LaGrange County (combined enrollment of about 4,769 students).

Prairie Heights Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prairie Heights Sr High School has rose 5%, going from 413 students in 2018 to 432 in 2025.

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