Northwoods Reporter

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

Data showed that 954 students were enrolled in the Unity School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 0.3% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the district.

Unity School District roughly covers three schools within Polk County and has a main office in Balsam Lake.

Among the three schools in Unity School District, Unity High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of two 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	954	3	0.3%
2021-22	939	2	0.2%
2020-21	930	1	0.1%
2019-20	920	2	0.2%
2018-19	937	3	0.3%
2017-18	936	1	0.1%
2016-17	955	4	0.4%
2015-16	982	1	0.1%
2012-13	1,026	2	0.2%
2011-12	1,025	4	0.4%
2010-11	1,094	2	0.2%
2009-10	1,090	5	0.5%
2008-09	1,090	7	0.6%
2007-08	1,097	5	0.5%