Summary:
Pembine, Wisconsin is a small community served by two public schools in the Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine School District: Pembine Elementary, which serves grades PK–6 with 139 students, and Pembine High, which serves grades 7–12 with 87 students. Both schools share the same address on Sauld St, suggesting a single campus, and together enroll 226 students. The district as a whole is ranked 309 of 432 in Wisconsin, at the 28th percentile with 1 star — lower than either school's own 2025–26 rating. Because these are very small schools, grade-level test percentages can swing sharply from year to year, and rankings come from different peer groups, so cross-school comparisons should be read with that in mind.
Pembine High is the standout on school-level measures: 141 of 533 high schools in 2025–26 (74th percentile, 4 stars), a 95.0% graduation rate above the state's 92.0%, a 1.1% dropout rate equal to the state, and above-state 10th-grade ACT results in ELA (62.5 vs. 48.47) and Math (50 vs. 42.93), though Science was below state (37.5 vs. 43.2). Its ranking has cooled from a 93rd-percentile, 5-star peak in 2022–23. Pembine Elementary ranks lower overall (676 of 1039, 35th percentile, 2 stars) but posts exceptional individual results, including 6th-grade ELA at 94.12 vs. state 54.95 — the highest single test score in the dataset — and 6th-grade Math at 64.71 vs. 53.60.
The sharpest internal contrast is chronic absenteeism: 6.4% at the elementary school versus 21.6% at the high school, compared with 12.7% district-wide and 17.3% statewide. Resource allocation also tilts toward the high school, which spends $28,199 per pupil with a 7.3 student-teacher ratio, versus $18,582 and 11.4 at the elementary school. Poverty is high at both, with free/reduced lunch at 66.91% and 59.77%. Math is generally the weaker subject, and results like 7th-grade math (23.08 vs. state 55.67) and falling 8th-grade science suggest uneven middle grades.
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