Prentice High

Prentice High operates as a minimally staffed four-year high school in Prentice, Wisconsin, run under Prentice School District. Current enrollment sits at 105 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 475 students each, so Prentice High sits 78% smaller than that benchmark.

Prentice School District runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 328 students. Prentice High is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Prentice High lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to Price County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Prentice High has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.3:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Prentice High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 60.1%; this one comes in at 38.1%, -22.0 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Price County put median household earnings sit near $60,546, about 18% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Price County runs 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,464 students), of which Prentice High is one.

The closest other public school is Prentice Middle, roughly 0.0 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Prentice High at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 56.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Prentice High's enrollment has edged down 27% since 2018, when it stood at 144 (now 105). Over the same period, the White share fell from 97% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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