Northwoods Reporter

There were 118 Black students enrolled in Superior School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 4,155 students were enrolled in the Superior School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 2.8% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the district.

Superior School District roughly covers nine schools within Douglas County and has a main office in Superior.

Among the nine schools in Superior School District, Superior High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 35 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	4,155	118	2.8%
2021-22	4,181	106	2.5%
2020-21	4,321	123	2.9%
2019-20	4,538	137	3%
2018-19	4,622	130	2.8%
2017-18	4,705	140	3%
2016-17	4,757	141	3%
2015-16	4,704	149	3.2%
2014-15	4,680	134	2.9%
2013-14	4,667	131	2.8%
2012-13	4,744	150	3.2%
2011-12	4,775	160	3.4%
2010-11	4,858	185	3.8%
2009-10	4,873	146	3%
2008-09	4,931	143	2.9%
2007-08	4,993	124	2.5%