Northwoods Reporter

There were 6,063 white students enrolled in Polk County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.1% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Polk County welcomed 6,694 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 90.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 26 schools in Polk County, Osceola High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 508 students.

According to the Nation’s Report Card 2022 results, Black fourth-graders in Wisconsin scored an average of 40 points lower than their white colleagues in both Math and Reading.

Data also showed that Black students were three times as likely to fail the Reading test than white pupils in the state. The gap is even larger in Mathematics, with Black students failing five times more than white students.

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Amery High School	91.2%	465
Amery Intermediate School	90.9%	285
Amery Middle School	89.3%	300
Clayton Elementary School	94.9%	137
Clayton High School	97.9%	93
Clayton Middle School	100%	56
Clear Lake High School	89.5%	181
Clear Lake Junior High School	91%	100
Dresser Elementary School	96.3%	54
Frederic 6-12 School	87.3%	221
Frederic Elementary School	92.8%	208
Gaylord A. Nelson Educational Center	91.9%	284
Lien Elementary School	90.5%	347
Luck Elementary School	92.6%	190
Luck High School	94.1%	118
Luck Middle School	88.4%	86
Osceola Elementary School	91.7%	397
Osceola High School	92.2%	551
Osceola Intermediate School	90.9%	307
Osceola Middle School	92%	339
Saint Croix Falls Elementary School	92.5%	347
Saint Croix Falls High School	92.4%	342
Saint Croix Falls Middle School	91%	332
Unity Elementary School	84.3%	396
Unity High School	86.5%	296
Unity Middle School	81.7%	262