Summary:
ZIP code 54556 is home to three public schools — Prentice Elementary (PK–4), Prentice Middle (5–8), and Prentice High (9–12) — which together serve 328 students on a single campus in the small rural community of Prentice, Wisconsin, as part of the Prentice School District.
Each school stands out in a different way. The high school is the district's turnaround story: its state rank percentile rose from 15th to 27th to 54th over three years, reaching 3 stars, with ACT results above the state average in three of four subjects and a 96.4% graduation rate versus the state's 92.0%. The middle school has the best attendance of the three, with chronic absenteeism of 11.5% compared with 23.2% at the elementary school, 26.0% at the high school, and 17.3% statewide — though its own rank has slipped from the 60th to the 34th percentile. The elementary school serves the highest-need population (61.65% free or reduced lunch versus 28.57% at the high school) yet posted the district's most striking result: 3rd-grade ELA at 73.33% and math at 66.67%, both well above state.
Two patterns matter most for families. First, social studies is the one shared weakness — every tested grade fell short of the state in 2025-26, by about 10 points in 4th grade, 37 in 8th, and 29 in 10th. Second, per-pupil spending rises as enrollment and poverty fall, from $13,626 at the elementary school to $15,904 at the high school. Because each grade-level result reflects only about 15–30 students, year-to-year swings of 20–40 points should be treated as signals to investigate rather than settled measures of school quality.
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