How many Hispanic students were enrolled in Barron County schools in 2022-23 school year?

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

By Chippewa Valley Times

Nov 12, 2023

There were 457 Hispanic students enrolled in Barron County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 6.8% more 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, Hispanic students comprised 6.1% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 36 schools in Barron County, Woodland Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 47 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 Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Advanced Learning Academy of Wisconsin	11.4%	35
Barron Area Montessori School	4.6%	44
Barron High School	8.9%	316
Cameron Academy of Virtual Education	2.6%	115
Cameron Elementary School	2.6%	422
Cameron High School	2.5%	276
Cameron Middle School	5.8%	330
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School	4.5%	243
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Middle School	2.9%	207
Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Roselawn Elementary School	2.7%	477
Cumberland Elementary School	11.1%	359
Cumberland High School	11%	299
Cumberland Middle School	10.5%	276
Haugen Elementary School	3.4%	88
Head Start	33.3%	18
Hilltop Day Care and Preschool	4.6%	22
Hilltop Elementary School	11.8%	262
Island City Virtual Academy	7.4%	54
Link2Learn Virtual Charter School	8%	25
New Auburn Elementary School	3.1%	130
New Auburn High School	2.1%	96
New Auburn Middle School	1.4%	72
North Star Academy	12.5%	8
Prairie Farm High School	3.2%	125
Prairie Farm Middle School	3.3%	90
Rice Lake High School	5%	714
Rice Lake Middle School	5.7%	601
Riverview Middle School	8.2%	317
Tainter Elementary School	4%	481
Turtle Lake Elementary School	6%	235
Turtle Lake High School	4.2%	119
Turtle Lake Middle School	7.8%	103
Woodland Elementary School	14.8%	317