Northwoods Reporter

There were 94 American Indian students enrolled in Barron County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 1.1% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Barron County welcomed 7,551 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 1.2% of the student body, making them the third least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the nine districts in Barron County, Cumberland School District recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 51 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Barron County.

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.

District	% of American Indian Students	Total Enrollment
Barron Area School District	0.5%	1,119
Cameron School District	0.5%	1,151
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District	0.1%	962
Cumberland School District	5.2%	988
New Auburn School District	0.3%	298
Rice Lake Area School District	0.9%	2,186
Turtle Lake School District	2.4%	467