Northwoods Reporter

There were 1,917 white students enrolled in Rice Lake Area School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 2,186 students were enrolled in the Rice Lake Area School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 87.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the district.

Rice Lake Area School District roughly covers 13 schools within Barron County and has a main office in Rice Lake.

Among the 13 schools in Rice Lake Area School District, Rice Lake High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 632 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 white Students	white %
2022-23	2,186	1,917	87.7%
2021-22	2,197	1,927	87.7%
2020-21	2,234	1,962	87.8%
2019-20	2,259	1,994	88.3%
2018-19	2,276	2,015	88.5%
2017-18	2,280	2,019	88.6%
2016-17	2,254	1,984	88%
2015-16	2,243	1,995	88.9%
2014-15	2,215	1,966	88.8%
2013-14	2,277	2,033	89.3%
2012-13	2,327	2,078	89.3%
2011-12	2,358	2,136	90.6%
2010-11	2,375	2,157	90.8%
2009-10	2,388	2,213	92.7%
2008-09	2,395	2,245	93.7%
2007-08	2,510	2,357	93.9%