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

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

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

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
White [86.1%]Ethnicities <5% [7.8%]Hispanic [6.1%]
Enrollment in Barron County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of white students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Advanced Learning Academy of Wisconsin77.1%35
Barron Area Montessori School90.9%44
Barron High School75.3%316
Cameron Academy of Virtual Education92.2%115
Cameron Elementary School92.9%422
Cameron High School91.7%276
Cameron Middle School90%330
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School89.3%243
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle School93.2%207
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary School92.9%477
Cumberland Elementary School78%359
Cumberland High School83.6%299
Cumberland Middle School81.9%276
Haugen Elementary School95.5%88
Head Start66.7%18
Hilltop Day Care and Preschool81.8%22
Hilltop Elementary School83.2%262
Island City Virtual Academy87%54
Laker Online100%5
Link2Learn Virtual Charter School88%25
New Auburn Elementary School85.4%130
New Auburn High School95.8%96
New Auburn Middle School94.4%72
North Star Academy87.5%8
Prairie Farm Elementary School97.6%163
Prairie Farm High School95.2%125
Prairie Farm Middle School95.6%90
Rice Lake High School88.5%714
Rice Lake Middle School86.4%601
Riverview Middle School76%317
Tainter Elementary School90.2%481
Turtle Lake Elementary School84.7%235
Turtle Lake High School89.9%119
Turtle Lake Middle School84.5%103
Woodland Elementary School56.2%317

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