Northwoods Reporter

There were 12 Black 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, Black students comprised 0.5% of the student body to be the second least 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 and Tainter Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four 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	2,186	12	0.6%
2021-22	2,197	9	0.4%
2020-21	2,234	8	0.4%
2019-20	2,259	12	0.5%
2018-19	2,276	11	0.5%
2017-18	2,280	10	0.4%
2016-17	2,254	12	0.5%
2015-16	2,243	14	0.6%
2014-15	2,215	12	0.5%
2013-14	2,277	9	0.4%
2012-13	2,327	14	0.6%
2011-12	2,358	13	0.6%
2010-11	2,375	10	0.4%
2009-10	2,388	35	1.5%
2008-09	2,395	29	1.2%
2007-08	2,510	22	0.9%