Northwoods Reporter

There were 27 Hispanic 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, Hispanic students comprised 5.8% of the student body to be the second 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 Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 14 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 Hispanic Students	Hispanic %
2022-23	467	27	5.8%
2021-22	450	25	5.6%
2020-21	472	25	5.3%
2019-20	469	18	3.8%
2018-19	458	15	3.3%
2017-18	445	15	3.4%
2016-17	435	16	3.7%
2015-16	431	10	2.3%
2014-15	465	15	3.2%
2013-14	440	11	2.5%
2012-13	444	13	2.9%
2011-12	468	13	2.8%
2010-11	481	14	2.9%
2009-10	489	9	1.8%
2008-09	503	7	1.4%
2007-08	510	7	1.4%