Northwoods Reporter

There were 4,799 white students enrolled in Douglas County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.2% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Douglas County welcomed 5,634 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 85.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 16 schools in Douglas County, Superior High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,127 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
Bryant Elementary School	88.3%	291
Cooper Elementary School	80.4%	341
Eagles' Wings Public Montessori Charter	95.4%	86
Eagles' Wings Virtual Charter School	88.2%	17
Four Corners Elementary School	89.1%	193
Great Lakes Elementary School	81.7%	388
Lake Superior Elementary School	78.8%	151
Northern Lights Elementary School	71.1%	491
Northwestern Elementary School	92.8%	527
Northwestern High School	90.3%	400
Northwestern Middle School	91%	266
Solon Springs School	95.1%	183
Superior Community Preschool	79.1%	91
Superior High School	86.3%	1,306
Superior Middle School	83%	903