Northwoods Reporter

There were 30 Black students enrolled in Polk County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 6.3% 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, Black students comprised 0.4% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 26 schools in Polk County, Amery High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of seven 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 Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Amery High School	1.5%	465
Amery Middle School	0.7%	300
Clayton Elementary School	1.5%	137
Frederic 6-12 School	1.8%	221
Frederic Elementary School	0.5%	208
Gaylord A. Nelson Educational Center	0.4%	284
Lien Elementary School	0.9%	347
Osceola Elementary School	0.5%	397
Osceola High School	0.2%	551
Osceola Intermediate School	0.3%	307
Osceola Middle School	0.3%	339
Saint Croix Falls High School	0.3%	342
Saint Croix Falls Middle School	0.3%	332
Unity High School	0.7%	296
Unity Middle School	0.4%	262