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Enrollment Analysis: Hispanic students comprised 6.1% of Barron County's student body 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 457 Hispanic students enrolled in Barron County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 6.8% 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, Hispanic students comprised 6.1% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 36 schools in Barron County, Woodland Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 47 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 Hispanic students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Advanced Learning Academy of Wisconsin11.4%35
Barron Area Montessori School4.6%44
Barron High School8.9%316
Cameron Academy of Virtual Education2.6%115
Cameron Elementary School2.6%422
Cameron High School2.5%276
Cameron Middle School5.8%330
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School4.5%243
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle School2.9%207
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary School2.7%477
Cumberland Elementary School11.1%359
Cumberland High School11%299
Cumberland Middle School10.5%276
Haugen Elementary School3.4%88
Head Start33.3%18
Hilltop Day Care and Preschool4.6%22
Hilltop Elementary School11.8%262
Island City Virtual Academy7.4%54
Link2Learn Virtual Charter School8%25
New Auburn Elementary School3.1%130
New Auburn High School2.1%96
New Auburn Middle School1.4%72
North Star Academy12.5%8
Prairie Farm High School3.2%125
Prairie Farm Middle School3.3%90
Rice Lake High School5%714
Rice Lake Middle School5.7%601
Riverview Middle School8.2%317
Tainter Elementary School4%481
Turtle Lake Elementary School6%235
Turtle Lake High School4.2%119
Turtle Lake Middle School7.8%103
Woodland Elementary School14.8%317

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