Summary
Prentice High is a small public high school in Prentice, WI, serving grades 9–12 with 105 students, making it the smallest of the three schools in this comparison. It is part of the Prentice School District, which is rated 296th of 432 districts (31st percentile, 2 stars). The school itself is rated higher than its district: Prentice High ranked 245th of 533 schools (54th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–26. That is a big rebound from 2023–24 and 2024–25, when it sat in the 15th and 27th percentiles with 1-star ratings, though its history shows results can swing notably from year to year.
Completion is Prentice’s clearest strength. Its graduation rate was 96.4% in 2024–25, above the state’s 92.0%, and has ranged from 95.2% to 100% over the last five reported years, with dropout rates usually 0.0%. Attendance is the bigger concern: 26.0% of students were chronically absent in 2024–25, compared with 19.6% in the district and 17.3% statewide. That is far above Rib Lake High’s 10.3%, though better than Phillips High’s 42.3%. Academically, 2025–26 ACT results were above state in English Language Arts (54.17%), Mathematics (50%), and Science (50%), with Math the highest of the three comparison schools. But 10th-grade Forward Social Studies proficiency was just 19.05%, far below the state’s 48.25% and well below Rib Lake (60.53%) and Phillips (40.0%). That subject is the clearest academic red flag.
Prentice’s resource profile looks relatively favorable, with the lowest student–teacher ratio at 9.3, per-student spending of $15,904, and a free/reduced lunch rate of 28.57% — between Rib Lake’s 44.3% and Phillips’s 1.47%. Its 2025–26 subgroup effectiveness was above the state median for male students (63rd percentile) and low-socioeconomic-status students (60th percentile), but below median for female students (36th percentile). Overall, Prentice outperformed Phillips in the latest ranking and several 2025–26 subjects, but is not as consistently strong as Rib Lake.
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