Northwoods Reporter

There were 1,479 white students enrolled in Rusk County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Rusk County welcomed 1,614 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 91.6% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the nine schools in Rusk County, Ladysmith Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 290 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
Bruce Elementary School	91%	200
Bruce High School	94.7%	131
Bruce Middle School	92.4%	79
Flambeau Elementary School	98.6%	214
Flambeau High School	97.9%	141
Flambeau Middle School	96.2%	106
Ladysmith Elementary School	88.2%	329
Ladysmith High School	85.7%	245
Ladysmith Middle School	88.2%	169