Northwoods Reporter

There were 13 Black students enrolled in Sawyer County districts in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Sawyer County welcomed 2,154 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 0.6% of the student body, making them the second least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the four districts in Sawyer County, Hayward Community School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 13 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Sawyer 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 Black Students	Total Enrollment
Hayward Community School District	0.7%	1,905