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Prosser High School
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Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2022-23 . % Met or Exceeded Standard7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Prosser High School
Located at 1500 Paterson Rd., in Prosser, Washington, Prosser High School is a sprawling high school that works with 877 students (grades 9 through 12), run under Prosser School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 573 students each, so Prosser High School sits 53% bigger than that benchmark.
Prosser School District comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,534 students; Prosser High School is among them.
On demographics, Prosser High School records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%. Beyond that, the school reports 30% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.
On the resource side, Prosser High School lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.6:1. The state averages around 21.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Benton County (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Benton County) shows that median household income runs about $89,874, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Benton County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,191 students), Prosser High School is one campus in the mix.
Prosser Opportunity Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies a town-based site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prosser High School has remained close to its prior level, going from 886 students in 2018 to 877 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 61% to 66% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 in 2025.
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