Northwoods Reporter

There were 14 Asian students enrolled in Burnett County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 51.7% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Burnett County welcomed 2,819 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 0.5% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Burnett County, iForward recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of eight 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 Asian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Grantsburg Middle School	0.3%	321
Siren Elementary School	1.5%	195
Siren High School	0.9%	219
iForward	0.9%	896