Parowan School

Parowan School is a primary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in PAROWAN, Utah, operated by Iron District, serveing 418 students in grades K through 6.

Across the 18 schools in Iron District (14,125 students total), Parowan School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Parowan School lists that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.8:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at Parowan School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Iron County's rate of about 30%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Parowan School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.0%.

Across the wider county, Iron County reports that the typical household earns roughly $66,247 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Iron County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,285 students), Parowan School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Parowan High, roughly 0.1 miles away. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Parowan School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 46.5%.

Parowan School operates from a countryside location.

Five-year trend. Parowan School's enrollment has grew 13% since 2018, when it stood at 370 (now 418). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 94% to 87%.

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