Northwoods Reporter

There were 13 Black students enrolled in Sawyer County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as 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, Black students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Sawyer County, Hayward High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of six 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
Hayward High School	1.1%	529
Hayward Intermediate School	0.6%	353
Hayward Middle School	1.2%	347
Hayward Primary School	0.2%	416