Jill Underly Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction | Wikipedia
Jill Underly Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction | Wikipedia
Data showed that Polk County schools welcomed 6,298 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 3.7% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the 26 schools in Polk County, Unity Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 19 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.
These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.
Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.
| School name | % of Hispanic students enrollment | Total Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Amery High School | 3.3% | 430 |
| Amery Intermediate School | 4.7% | 275 |
| Amery Middle School | 4% | 300 |
| Clayton Elementary School | 2.2% | 136 |
| Clayton Middle School | 2.1% | 47 |
| Clear Lake High School | 6.6% | 198 |
| Dresser Elementary School | 3% | 66 |
| Frederic 6-12 School | 2.2% | 226 |
| Frederic Elementary School | 2.7% | 189 |
| Gaylord A. Nelson Educational Center | 3.7% | 269 |
| Lien Elementary School | 4.1% | 321 |
| Luck Elementary School | 1.7% | 177 |
| Luck High School | 4.1% | 123 |
| Luck Middle School | 2.5% | 79 |
| Osceola Elementary School | 2.7% | 339 |
| Osceola High School | 2.8% | 463 |
| Osceola Intermediate School | 6.8% | 265 |
| Osceola Middle School | 4.8% | 294 |
| Saint Croix Falls Elementary School | 3.7% | 322 |
| Saint Croix Falls High School | 3.1% | 356 |
| Saint Croix Falls Middle School | 2.9% | 311 |
| Unity Elementary School | 4.9% | 389 |
| Unity High School | 5.4% | 295 |
| Unity Middle School | 3.9% | 258 |
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