Summary:
Marinette, Wisconsin is served by four public schools in the Marinette School District — Marinette Primary (PK–1), Marinette Intermediate (2–4), Marinette Middle (5–8), and Marinette High (9–12) — together enrolling 1,914 students. The district is ranked 382nd out of 432 in Wisconsin, in the 12th percentile with 1 star, so all four schools share that district-level context.
Among the ranked schools, Marinette Intermediate is the brightest spot: 38th percentile with 2 stars, the lowest chronic absenteeism in the city at 15.0% (below the district's 22.9% and the state's 17.3%), and 4th grade Social Studies at 69.35% proficient versus 65.51% statewide — one of the few above-state results in the city. Marinette Middle is the most urgent concern: 21st percentile with 1 star, chronic absenteeism of 32.7% (highest in the city, 9.8 points above the district and 15.4 points above the state), and a dropout rate of 3.8% — higher than the high school's 2.2%, the district's 2.7%, and the state's 1.1%. Marinette High has climbed to the 27th percentile, with Social Studies at 46.43% (state 48.25%) and Science improving to 34.13%, but its ACT results lag far behind state: Math 21.97% vs 42.93%, and ELA 31.82% vs 48.47%.
Marinette Primary has no current test scores, which is expected for a PK–1 school, but it has the highest student-teacher ratio at 20.8 and the lowest per-student spending at $12,991. Poverty is high and fairly uniform, with free/reduced lunch rates ranging from 46.12% to 52.69%. Taken together, the data suggests the elementary-to-middle transition is a key pressure point for the district.
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