Barron County Education: 6,407 white students were enrolled in schools in 2022-23 school year

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

By Chippewa Valley Times

Nov 25, 2023

There were 6,407 white students enrolled in Barron County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.7% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Barron County welcomed 7,444 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 86.1% 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 2022-23 school year, with a total of 632 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.

Ethnicities in Barron County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Barron County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Advanced Learning Academy of Wisconsin	77.1%	35
Barron Area Montessori School	90.9%	44
Barron High School	75.3%	316
Cameron Academy of Virtual Education	92.2%	115
Cameron Elementary School	92.9%	422
Cameron High School	91.7%	276
Cameron Middle School	90%	330
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School	89.3%	243
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle School	93.2%	207
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary School	92.9%	477
Cumberland Elementary School	78%	359
Cumberland High School	83.6%	299
Cumberland Middle School	81.9%	276
Haugen Elementary School	95.5%	88
Head Start	66.7%	18
Hilltop Day Care and Preschool	81.8%	22
Hilltop Elementary School	83.2%	262
Island City Virtual Academy	87%	54
Laker Online	100%	5
Link2Learn Virtual Charter School	88%	25
New Auburn Elementary School	85.4%	130
New Auburn High School	95.8%	96
New Auburn Middle School	94.4%	72
North Star Academy	87.5%	8
Prairie Farm Elementary School	97.6%	163
Prairie Farm High School	95.2%	125
Prairie Farm Middle School	95.6%	90
Rice Lake High School	88.5%	714
Rice Lake Middle School	86.4%	601
Riverview Middle School	76%	317
Tainter Elementary School	90.2%	481
Turtle Lake Elementary School	84.7%	235
Turtle Lake High School	89.9%	119
Turtle Lake Middle School	84.5%	103
Woodland Elementary School	56.2%	317