Summary:
Prescott High is the only high school in the Prescott School District in Prescott, Wisconsin, serving grades 9–12 with 394 students. Because it is the district's entire high school footprint, high-school-level district figures and school figures are usually identical, though district-wide rates for dropout and absenteeism also include the elementary and middle grades.
On the outcomes families care about most, this school is a strong performer. Its graduation rate is 97.3%, well above Wisconsin's 92.0%, and its dropout rate is 0.0%, compared with 0.7% district-wide and 1.1% statewide. Chronic absenteeism is 14.1% — higher than the 8.9% district figure, but that district number includes lower grades where absenteeism is typically lower; the more meaningful comparison is the state's 17.3%, which this school beats by 3.2 points. The standout academic result is 10th-grade Social Studies: 75.61% proficient on the Forward Exam, 27.36 points above the state's 48.25% and by far the largest gap over the state anywhere in the data. Context metrics describe a small, comparatively low-poverty building: free/reduced lunch is 18.27%, per-student spending is $15,884, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.7:1. The district itself ranks 48th of 432 Wisconsin districts, in the top ~11%.
Two areas are worth watching. Science is the only subject where the school does not clearly exceed the state — 42.22% vs. 43.20% in 2025-26 and 43.48% vs. 43.42% in 2024-25 — sitting essentially at the state line two years running. Meanwhile ACT results for ELA and Math fell sharply year over year (60.87% to 48.89% and 54.35% to 46.67%), landing near or modestly above state, even as Social Studies surged. With fewer than 100 students tested per subject, swings of this size can reflect cohort variation, so a second year of data will clarify whether these are trends. The school's state rank moved 76 → 139 → 155, but its percentile went 82 → 68 → 71 against a larger comparison pool of 533 schools, a partial rebound to 4 stars.
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