Enrollment
280
High
DISTRICT 266 · STATE 371
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PARKERS PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.·NCES 272811001238
PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY
411 S OTTER AVE, PARKERS PRAIRIE, MN 56361 · (218) 338-6011 · Otter Tail County
GRADES 07–12HIGH43-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL280 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of Minnesota public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public high schools
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.8:1 · STATE 16.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
73 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 48%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 9 | 53 | 19% |
| Grade 10 | 34 | 12% |
| Grade 11 | 63 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 43 | 15% |
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 7% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within PARKERS PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
38.1%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
34.6%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.1%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY
PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY's state test result (34.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY this school | 280 | 26.1% | 34.6% |
| ROYALTON HIGH SCHOOL ROYALTON | 293 | 23.5% | 35.3% |
| Murray County Central High School SLAYTON | 328 | 27.4% | 43.3% |
| MOOSE LAKE SECONDARY MOOSE LAKE | 276 | 28.6% | 40.5% |
| JANESVILLE-WALDORF-PEMBERTON SEC JANESVILLE | 312 | 26.3% | 50.9% |
| MINNEOTA SECONDARY MINNEOTA | 296 | 24.3% | 57.2% |
Matched among Minnesota high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Otter Tail County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #254 of 397 | #8 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.6% | #189 of 401 | #7 of 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.1% | #299 of 397 | #8 of 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 280 | #276 of 764 | #5 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.2:1 | #291 of 332 | #6 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.6% | #325 of 338 | #6 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.1% | #332 of 444 | #8 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.6% | #146 of 181 | #6 of 6 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
280
-7 (-2%) vs 2020
+12% since 1990-91, when it was 250
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
was 19.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 280 | 13.2 | 21.2:1 | 26% (73) |
| 2023-24 | 278 | 15.2 | 18.3:1 | 33% (91) |
| 2022-23 | 285 | 14.6 | 19.6:1 | 30% (85) |
| 2020-21 | 287 | 15 | 19.1:1 | 17% (49) |
| 2017-18 | 273 | 19.4 | 14.1:1 | 24% (66) |
| 2015-16 | 259 | 19 | 13.6:1 | 33% (85) |
| 2010-11 | 269 | 19 | 14.2:1 | 40% (108) |
| 2000-01 | 336 | 21 | 16.0:1 | 35% (116) |
| 1990-91 | 250 | 18 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (273 to 280); teachers down 32% (19.4 to 13.2).
About PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY
PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY is the name of a small high school in PARKERS PRAIRIE, Minnesota. Students in grades 7 through 12 make up the school's enrollment of 280 students. By comparison, high schools in Minnesota enroll about 371 students on average.
PARKERS PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. has 2 schools and 531 students, and PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY is one of those schools.
PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY is 96% White by enrollment. The remaining shares are 3% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY scores 8%.
A staff of 13.2 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 21.2:1. The average for high schools in Minnesota, 16.3:1, is lower. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 26%. Among public schools in Otter Tail County, the average eligibility rate is 40%.
On the allk12 Grade, PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY lands at C-, ahead of 21% of Minnesota public high schools.
PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 34.6%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Minnesota are predicted to post 51.1%, so the school is 16.5 points behind and in the state's bottom 10%.
In Otter Tail County, home to about 60,475 people, the median household earns about $72,255 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 28% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY shares Otter Tail County with 36 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY is about 0.2 miles from PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY. Other public schools within ten miles: 2. The nearest schools with test data average 52.1%, higher than PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY's 34.6%.
For locale, NCES codes PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY as Rural: Remote.
In 2020-21, PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY enrolled 287; in 2024-25, 280. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 19.1:1 to 21.2:1.
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Otter Tail County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
60,475
Census ACS
Median income
$72,255
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
37
8,503 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PARKERS PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.
- PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARYElementary · 251 students
Other schools in PARKERS PRAIRIE
- PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARYElementary · 251 students
- F.E.D. Parkers Prairie Credit RecovElementary
Nearby schools
- PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY0.2 mi · 251
- Miltona Elementary7.6 mi · 126
- Carlos Elementary12.1 mi · 108
- HENNING SECONDARY13.0 mi · 171
- HENNING ELEMENTARY13.0 mi · 210
- Bertha Secondary15.0 mi · 213
Frequently asked questions
About PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARYHow large is PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY?
PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY enrolls approximately 280 students in grades 07-12.
What grades does PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY serve?
PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY serves grades 07-12.
How many students per teacher at PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY?
Approximately 21.2:1 students per teacher at PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY.
How diverse is PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY?
PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY reports a student body of 96% White, 3% Hispanic, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY?
PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY is overseen by PARKERS PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. in Otter Tail County.
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