Summary:
The Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine School District in Pembine, Wisconsin is a very small two-school district serving roughly 226 students: Pembine Elementary, which covers grades PK–6 with 139 students, and Pembine High, which covers grades 7–12 with 87 students. There is no middle school, so grades 7 and 8 are housed at the high school, and both schools share the same address. The district overall ranks 309 of 432 in Wisconsin, at the 28th percentile with 1 star.
Pembine High is the stronger-ranked school, at 141 of 533 schools — 74th percentile, 4 stars — in 2025–2026, after 4-star and 5-star years in earlier rankings. Its graduation rate is 95.0%, above the state's 92.0%, and its dropout rate of 1.1% matches the state. Tenth-grade ACT results are a bright spot: 62.5% in ELA and 50% in Math, both above state. The concern is chronic absenteeism of 21.6%, worse than both the district (12.7%) and the state (17.3%), and its 2025–2026 Forward Exam results in grades 7–8 are mostly below state averages.
Pembine Elementary stands out for attendance, with chronic absenteeism of 6.4% — less than half the state rate. Its 2025–2026 sixth-grade ELA was 94.12% proficient versus 54.95% statewide, and social studies and science were above state in both years shown. Math, however, is below state in most grades. The school ranks 676 of 1,039 (35th percentile, 2 stars). With cohorts this small, a few students can shift a proficiency rate by many points, so year-to-year swings are best read as directional signals rather than firm trends.
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