Northwoods Reporter

There were 1,105 white students enrolled in Bayfield County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.2% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Bayfield County welcomed 1,651 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 66.9% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Bayfield County, Washburn Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 269 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
Bayfield Elementary School	13.1%	206
Bayfield High School	15.5%	116
Bayfield Middle School	19.6%	92
Drummond Elementary School	84.5%	181
Drummond High School	86.2%	109
Drummond Junior High School	85.4%	48
Iron River Elementary School	88.2%	102
South Shore Elementary School	87.7%	114
South Shore Junior-Senior High School	89.3%	84
Washburn Elementary School	84.3%	319
Washburn High School	78.8%	198
Washburn Middle School	78.1%	82