Northwoods Reporter

There were 153 Black students enrolled in Barron County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.9% less 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, Black students comprised 2.1% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 36 schools in Barron County, Woodland Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 62 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
Barron High School	8.5%	316
Cameron Academy of Virtual Education	2.6%	115
Cameron Elementary School	0.2%	422
Cameron High School	1.5%	276
Cameron Middle School	0.3%	330
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School	2.5%	243
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle School	0.5%	207
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary School	0.2%	477
Cumberland Middle School	0.7%	276
Hilltop Elementary School	0.8%	262
New Auburn Elementary School	1.5%	130
Rice Lake High School	0.6%	714
Rice Lake Middle School	0.3%	601
Riverview Middle School	9.8%	317
Tainter Elementary School	0.8%	481
Woodland Elementary School	19.6%	317