Parchment High School

In KALAMAZOO, Michigan, part of Kalamazoo County, Parchment High School is a high school. The school runs grades 8 through 12 and enrolls 412 students.

Parchment School District, which runs Parchment High School, has 6 schools and 1,558 students.

White students are 65% of those enrolled at Parchment High School. The rest of enrollment is 13% multiracial, 12% Black, and 8% Hispanic. Census estimates put the White share of Kalamazoo County's population at about 76%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 54, compared with 70 nationally.

Parchment High School has 24.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in Michigan is 21.6:1. At Parchment High School, 56% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Kalamazoo County averages 45%, lower than here.

The county, Kalamazoo County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $72,532, about 41% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 93, with about 34,151 students.

Parchment Central Elem School, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Mid-size: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

The school shrank from 464 students in 2020-21 to 412 in 2024-25.

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