Parowan High

Parowan High is a micro-enrollment high school in PAROWAN, Utah, part of Iron District. The school caters to 349 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 980 students each, so Parowan High sits 64% below that benchmark.

Within Iron District, which oversees 18 schools and 14,125 students, Parowan High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Parowan High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 6% Hispanic.

On the resource side, On paper, Parowan High has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.8:1. The state averages around 21.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Parowan High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 46.2%, a residual of +2.7 points.

Around the school, Iron County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,247 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Parowan High is one of 21 public schools in Iron County (combined enrollment of about 15,285 students).

The closest other public school is Parowan School, roughly 0.1 miles away. On composite proficiency, Parowan High comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Parowan High has showed little movement, going from 356 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.