Northwoods Reporter

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

Data showed that 426 students were enrolled in the Bayfield School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 0.5% of the student body to be the least represented ethnicity in the district.

Bayfield School District roughly covers four schools within Bayfield County and has a main office in Bayfield.

Among the four schools in Bayfield School District, Bayfield High School and La Pointe Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of one 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	426	2	0.5%
2021-22	397	2	0.5%
2020-21	408	3	0.7%
2019-20	403	2	0.5%
2018-19	365	2	0.6%
2017-18	367	3	0.8%
2016-17	370	4	1.1%
2015-16	378	4	1.1%
2014-15	387	5	1.3%
2013-14	396	5	1.3%
2012-13	413	5	1.2%
2011-12	419	4	1%
2010-11	405	7	1.7%
2009-10	396	6	1.5%
2008-09	393	2	0.5%
2007-08	422	1	0.2%
2006-07	422	1	0.2%