Northwoods Reporter

There were 6,317 white students enrolled in Barron County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Barron County schools welcomed 7,355 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 85.9% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 36 schools in Barron County, Rice Lake High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 612 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 white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Advanced Learning Academy of Wisconsin	86.7%	30
Barron Area Montessori School	84.6%	52
Barron High School	75.6%	312
Cameron Academy of Virtual Education	94.3%	123
Cameron Elementary School	93.8%	434
Cameron High School	91.3%	298
Cameron Middle School	94.1%	320
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School	91.4%	255
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle School	92.2%	204
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary School	93.1%	462
Cumberland Elementary School	76.8%	349
Cumberland High School	82.8%	297
Cumberland Middle School	84.3%	261
Haugen Elementary School	95.1%	81
Hilltop Day Care and Preschool	80%	20
Hilltop Elementary School	80.3%	264
Island City Virtual Academy	87.2%	47
Laker Online	100%	11
Link2Learn Virtual Charter School	91.4%	35
New Auburn Elementary School	87.7%	138
New Auburn High School	92.8%	97
New Auburn Middle School	92.2%	51
North Star Academy	100%	12
Prairie Farm Elementary School	97.9%	141
Prairie Farm High School	97.1%	137
Prairie Farm Middle School	94.9%	78
Rice Lake High School	86%	712
Rice Lake Middle School	87.2%	610
Riverview Middle School	70.5%	298
Tainter Elementary School	88.2%	490
Turtle Lake Elementary School	82.2%	214
Turtle Lake High School	91.1%	112
Turtle Lake Middle School	83.8%	99
Woodland Elementary School	57.6%	311