Northwoods Reporter

There were 1,783 white students enrolled in Ashland County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.9% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Ashland County welcomed 2,460 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 72.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Ashland County, Ashland High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 403 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
Ashland High School	64.4%	626
Ashland Middle School	63.6%	398
Butternut Elementary School	99%	102
Butternut High School	94.6%	92
Chequamegon Middle School	83.7%	129
Glidden Elementary School	90.6%	32
La Pointe Elementary School	83.3%	12
Lake Superior Elementary School	59.4%	603
Marengo Valley Elementary School	98.5%	196
Mellen Public School	89.3%	270