PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY

PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY operates as an intimate high school in PARKERS PRAIRIE, Minnesota, part of PARKERS PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.. Current enrollment sits at 280 students spanning grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY sits 25% below that benchmark.

Within PARKERS PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST., which oversees 2 schools and 531 students, PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 3% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.2:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Otter Tail County's rate of about 40%.

After controlling for student poverty, PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.1%; PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY posts 34.6%, -16.5 points below that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Otter Tail County put the typical household earns roughly $72,255 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Otter Tail County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,503 students), of which PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: PARKERS PRAIRIE ELEMENTARY, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PARKERS PRAIRIE SECONDARY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.1%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 3%: 273 students in 2018 compared to 280 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 today.

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