Northwoods Reporter

There were 417 multiracial students enrolled in Douglas County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 5.8% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Douglas County welcomed 5,757 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 7.2% of the student body, making them the second most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the three districts in Douglas County, Superior School District recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 354 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Douglas 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 multiracial Students	Total Enrollment
Maple School District	4.3%	1,295
Solon Springs School District	2.3%	307
Superior School District	8.5%	4,155