Summary:
High Schools in the Marinette School District consist of a single campus, Marinette High, serving grades 9–12 to 618 students at 2135 Pierce Ave in Marinette, Wisconsin. Because it is the district's only high school, district-level high school results and school-level results are essentially the same, so the useful comparisons are to Wisconsin averages and to the school's own prior-year performance. The school currently ranks 391 of 533 statewide, in the 27th percentile with 1 star, and its rank history shows three years of data.
Recent academic momentum is the most encouraging story. Social Studies proficiency rose from 30.77% in 2024–25 to 46.43% in 2025–26, a gain of 15.66 percentage points that nearly closed the gap to the state (now just 1.82 points below). Science improved from 27.86% to 34.13%, and ELA edged up from 30.00% to 31.82%. The school's percentile ranking also climbed from the 7th percentile in 2023–24 and 9th in 2024–25 to 27th in 2025–26, though its numeric rank stayed near 391. On behavioral measures, Marinette High beats its own district on dropout (2.2% vs. 2.7%) and chronic absenteeism (20.5% vs. 22.9%).
Challenges remain significant. Mathematics is the clearest weakness: ACT Math proficiency fell from 27.14% to 21.97%, a 5.17-point decline and 20.96 points below the state average — the largest gap in the data. ELA is 16.65 points below the state, Science 9.07 points below, and Social Studies 1.82 points below. Graduation is 89.3% versus the state's 92.0%; dropout is 2.2% versus 1.1%, double the state rate; chronic absenteeism is 20.5% versus 17.3%, meaning roughly one in five students is chronically absent. Nearly half of students (46.12%) qualify for free/reduced lunch, per-student spending is $15,201, and the student-teacher ratio is 14.4. Priorities for families to watch are math, ELA, and chronic absenteeism.
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