Northwoods Reporter

There were 136 multiracial students enrolled in Sawyer County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 16.2% more 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, multiracial students comprised 6.3% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Sawyer County, Hayward Primary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 41 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
Hayward Center for Individualized Learning	0.9%	229
Hayward High School	4.5%	529
Hayward Intermediate School	7.7%	353
Hayward Middle School	9.5%	347
Hayward Primary School	9.9%	416
Northern Waters Environmental School	6.5%	31
Winter Elementary School	4.4%	113
Winter High School	2.4%	83