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Barron County Education: 93 American Indian students were enrolled in schools in 2022-23 school year

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WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

There were 93 American Indian students enrolled in Barron County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.2% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Barron County welcomed 7,444 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 1.2% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 36 schools in Barron County, Cumberland Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 27 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.

Ethnicities in Barron County in 2022-23 School Year
White [86.1%]Ethnicities <5% [7.8%]Hispanic [6.1%]
Enrollment in Barron County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of American Indian students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Barron High School0.6%316
Cameron Academy of Virtual Education0.9%115
Cameron Elementary School0.7%422
Cameron Middle School0.6%330
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle School0.5%207
Cumberland Elementary School7.5%359
Cumberland High School3.3%299
Cumberland Middle School5.1%276
Haugen Elementary School1.1%88
Hilltop Day Care and Preschool4.6%22
Hilltop Elementary School0.8%262
New Auburn Elementary School0.8%130
Rice Lake High School1.1%714
Rice Lake Middle School0.8%601
Riverview Middle School0.6%317
Tainter Elementary School0.4%481
Turtle Lake Elementary School2.1%235
Turtle Lake High School1.7%119
Turtle Lake Middle School3.9%103

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