Northwoods Reporter

There were 2,162 white students enrolled in Burnett County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 1.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Burnett County welcomed 2,819 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 76.7% of the student body, making them the most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the three districts in Burnett County, Grantsburg School District recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,432 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Burnett 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 white Students	Total Enrollment
Grantsburg School District	81.4%	1,759
Siren School District	59.4%	414
Webster School District	74.9%	646