Northwoods Reporter

There were 366 American Indian students enrolled in Sawyer 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 Sawyer County welcomed 2,154 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 17% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Sawyer County, Hayward High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 120 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 American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Hayward Center for Individualized Learning	2.2%	229
Hayward High School	22.7%	529
Hayward Intermediate School	23%	353
Hayward Middle School	21%	347
Hayward Primary School	17.6%	416
Northern Waters Environmental School	6.5%	31
Winter Elementary School	5.3%	113
Winter High School	4.8%	83
Winter Middle School	3.8%	53