Northwoods Reporter

The majority of students in Barron County districts were white in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of the 7,457 students attending Barron County district schools, 85.9% were white. Hispanic students were the second largest ethnic group among Barron County's districts, making up 6.3% of the student body.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Barron County districts, representing 86% of the student body.

Barron Area School District, Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District and Rice Lake Area School District had the most diverse student body in the county, which included American Indian, Asian, African American, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, multiracial, and white.

In the 2023-24 school year, the total number of students enrolled in school districts in the county dropped to 1.2% compared to the previous year.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Barron County.

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.

District	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Barron Area School District	White	70.7	1,091
Cameron School District	White	93.3	1,187
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District	White	92.4	963
Cumberland School District	White	81.2	954
New Auburn School District	White	90.2	286
Prairie Farm Public School District	White	96.9	358
Rice Lake Area School District	White	86.4	2,177
Turtle Lake School District	White	85	441