Chippewa Valley Times

There were 34 American Indian students enrolled in St. Croix County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 17.1% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that St. Croix County welcomed 14,625 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 31 schools in St. Croix County, New Richmond Hillside Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of five 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.

School name	% of American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Glenwood City Elementary School	0.3%	295
Glenwood City High School	0.5%	193
Greenfield Elementary School	0.4%	845
Hudson High School	0.2%	1,783
Hudson Middle School	0.3%	1,133
Hudson Prairie Elementary School	0.4%	509
New Richmond High School	0.3%	1,112
New Richmond Hillside Elementary School	0.9%	556
New Richmond Middle School	0.3%	749
New Richmond Starr Elementary School	0.4%	539
North Hudson Elementary School	0.4%	278
Saint Croix Central Middle School	0.4%	479
Saint Croix Virtual Academy Inc.	0.9%	231
Somerset Elementary School	0.2%	563
Somerset High School	0.6%	469