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Prescott High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Prescott High
As a modestly sized 9-12 campus in Prescott, Wisconsin, Prescott High hosts 394 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Prescott School District.
Prescott High is one of 4 schools operated by Prescott School District, a district that instructs 1,184 students overall.
Looking at the student body, Prescott High lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest reads as 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Pierce County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Prescott High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 66.4%; this one comes in at 49.5%, -17.0 points off the demographic line.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Pierce County put median household income runs about $92,109, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Prescott High is one of 26 public schools in Pierce County (combined enrollment of about 7,419 students).
Prescott Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prescott High. On composite proficiency, Prescott High comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.6%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Prescott High has stayed largely flat, going from 400 students in 2018 to 394 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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