Summary:
Prentice, Wisconsin is served by exactly one public high school — Prentice High, a 9–12 school of 105 students in the Prentice School District — so families here are choosing a single, small school where each grade cohort is roughly 26 students. Because the district operates only this one high school, its district-level ACT results are simply the school's own results; there is no second campus to compare against.
The headline is a steep, three-year climb in statewide standing. Prentice High moved from 367th of 431 schools (15th percentile, 1 star) in 2023–24, to 314th (27th, 1 star) in 2024–25, to 245th of 533 schools (54th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–26 — the larger ranking pool makes that gain more meaningful, not less. Test scores back it up: in 2025–26 the school reached 54.17% proficient in English language arts (state 48.47%), 50.0% in math (state 42.93%) and 50.0% in science (state 43.20%), leading the state in all three ACT-tested subjects after trailing it the year before. Completion outcomes are strong too: a 96.4% graduation rate versus the state's 92.0%, and a 0.0% dropout rate versus 1.1% statewide.
Two flags stand out. Chronic absenteeism is 26.0%, above both the district (19.6%) and the state (17.3%) — roughly one in four students misses enough school to be flagged, which is worth watching even though dropouts are near zero. Social studies is the sharpest weakness: at 19.05% proficient it sits 29.2 points below the state's 48.25%, and fell from 39.29% the prior year, a recent reversal rather than a long-standing pattern. Also note these are tiny cohorts, where a single student can move a percentage by about 4 points, so treat any one year as noisy. Resources are a strength: $15,904 per student and a 9.3:1 student-teacher ratio. In short, a small, well-resourced, improving school whose trajectory hinges on attendance and social studies.
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