Summary:
ZIP code 54156 has just one high school: Pembine High, a grades 7–12 school in Pembine, WI, part of the Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine School District. With 87 students, or roughly 14–15 per grade, it is a very small school. It reports a 7.3 student-teacher ratio, $28,199 in per-pupil spending for 2024–2025, and 59.77% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch.
Its clearest strengths are at the high-school end. The graduation rate is 95.0% for 2024–2025, above the state's 92.0%, and the dropout rate is 1.1%, matching the state. In 2025–2026, 10th graders scored above state averages on ACT ELA (62.5% proficient vs. 48.47%) and ACT Math (50.0% vs. 42.93%), and on Forward Social Studies (62.5% vs. 48.25%). In 2024–2025, 8th-grade science (75.0% vs. 50.04%) and social studies (75.0% vs. 62.51%) were also well above state. The school's own rank history is strong: 4 stars and 74th percentile in 2025–2026, and 5 stars in 2022–2023.
Two watch items stand out. First, middle-grade proficiency in 2025–2026 fell below state averages across 7th- and 8th-grade ELA, math, science, and 8th-grade social studies — 7th-grade math was 23.08% vs. the state's 55.67%, a gap of 32.59 percentage points. Second, chronic absenteeism is 21.6%, above the district's 12.7% and the state's 17.3%. The district summary rank is 1 star and 28th percentile, contrasting with the school's 4-star history. Because cohorts are so small, one student can shift results by about 7 percentage points, so single-year changes are suggestive rather than definitive.
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