Pembine High

Pembine High, a very small high school in Pembine, Wisconsin, operated by Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine School District, hosts 87 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Pembine High sits 82% below that benchmark.

Within Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine School District, which oversees 2 schools and 226 students, Pembine High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Pembine High logs that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 2% Hispanic, 2% Black. Compared to Marinette County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.6:1 average. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Marinette County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pembine High ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 41.0%; Pembine High posts 54.7%, +13.7 points above that line.

In the area at large, Marinette County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,809 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Pembine High is one of 22 public schools in Marinette County (combined enrollment of about 5,654 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pembine Elementary, around 0.0 miles off. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pembine High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Pembine High's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 119 (now 87). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 7.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Pembine High community share and discuss enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.