Northwoods Reporter

There were 90 multiracial 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, multiracial students comprised 4.1% of the student body to be the third 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 Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 36 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 multiracial Students	multiracial %
2022-23	2,186	90	4.1%
2021-22	2,197	82	3.7%
2020-21	2,234	82	3.7%
2019-20	2,259	74	3.3%
2018-19	2,276	82	3.6%
2017-18	2,280	80	3.5%
2016-17	2,254	91	4%
2015-16	2,243	81	3.6%
2014-15	2,215	84	3.8%
2013-14	2,277	94	4.1%
2012-13	2,327	88	3.8%
2011-12	2,358	75	3.2%
2010-11	2,375	76	3.2%