Best Public Schools in Prentice, WI

The city of Prentice, Wisconsin is home to three schools serving students from elementary through high school: Prentice Elementary, Prentice High, and Prentice Middle. While the Prentice School District as a whole struggles with low academic performance, Prentice Middle School stands out as the highest-performing school in the district, with strong test scores and a relatively high ranking among Wisconsin middle schools.

Prentice Middle School is ranked 288 out of 628 Wisconsin middle schools and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger. The school performed relatively well on state assessments, with 60.87% of 8th graders proficient or better in English Language Arts and Mathematics. Prentice Middle School was particularly strong in 8th grade Social Studies (69.57% proficient) and Science (78.26% proficient), and it maintained a low student-teacher ratio of 9:1. In contrast, Prentice Elementary and Prentice High generally performed below the state averages on the Forward Exam, with some exceptions, such as Prentice High's better-than-district and state performance on the ACT.

Despite the district's overall low performance, Prentice High School maintains a high 91% four-year graduation rate and a low 1.3% dropout rate. However, all three schools in the district struggle with high chronic absenteeism rates, ranging from 17.7% to 17.7%. Additionally, the significant differences in per-student spending and student-teacher ratios between the schools suggest potential resource allocation and equity issues within the district that may be contributing to the overall low academic performance.