Northwoods Reporter

There were 415 multiracial students enrolled in Douglas County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 6.1% more 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, multiracial students comprised 7.4% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 16 schools in Douglas County, Northern Lights Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 76 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 multiracial students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Bryant Elementary School	3.1%	291
Cooper Elementary School	10.6%	341
Eagles' Wings Virtual Charter School	5.9%	17
Four Corners Elementary School	6.7%	193
Great Lakes Elementary School	10.6%	388
Lake Superior Elementary School	13.3%	151
Northern Lights Elementary School	15.5%	491
Northwestern Elementary School	4%	527
Northwestern High School	5%	400
Northwestern Middle School	4.9%	266
Solon Springs School	3.3%	183
Superior Community Preschool	11%	91
Superior High School	5.7%	1,306
Superior Middle School	8.3%	903