Northwoods Reporter

There were 401 white students enrolled in Turtle Lake School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 467 students were enrolled in the Turtle Lake School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 85.9% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the district.

Turtle Lake School District roughly covers five schools within Barron County and has a main office in Turtle Lake.

Among the five schools in Turtle Lake School District, Turtle Lake Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 199 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	467	401	85.9%
2021-22	450	392	87.1%
2020-21	472	402	85.2%
2019-20	469	410	87.4%
2018-19	458	404	88.2%
2017-18	445	395	88.8%
2016-17	435	389	89.4%
2015-16	431	396	91.9%
2014-15	465	422	90.8%
2013-14	440	415	94.3%
2012-13	444	415	93.5%
2011-12	468	434	92.7%
2010-11	481	448	93.1%
2009-10	489	453	92.6%
2008-09	503	462	91.9%
2007-08	510	478	93.7%