Northwoods Reporter

There were four Black students enrolled in Spooner Area School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 1,015 students were enrolled in the Spooner Area School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 0.4% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the district.

Spooner Area School District roughly covers six schools within Washburn County and has a main office in Spooner.

Among the six schools in Spooner Area School District, Spooner High School and Spooner Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of two 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.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total Black Students	Black %
2022-23	1,015	4	0.4%
2021-22	1,049	8	0.8%
2020-21	1,021	7	0.7%
2019-20	1,111	13	1.2%
2018-19	1,158	14	1.2%
2017-18	1,149	6	0.5%
2016-17	1,162	5	0.4%
2015-16	1,187	11	0.9%
2014-15	1,300	15	1.2%
2013-14	1,276	16	1.3%
2012-13	1,233	16	1.3%
2011-12	1,237	18	1.5%
2010-11	1,260	17	1.4%
2009-10	1,221	15	1.2%
2008-09	1,251	16	1.3%
2007-08	1,286	12	0.9%