Chippewa Valley Times

There were 92 Black students enrolled in Chippewa County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 6.1% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Chippewa County welcomed 8,539 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.1% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 27 schools in Chippewa County, Chippewa Falls High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 23 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 Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Bloomer Elementary School	0.8%	498
Bloomer High School	1.6%	426
Bloomer Middle School	1.5%	332
Boyd Elementary School	1.6%	62
Cadott Elementary School	0.5%	442
Chippewa Falls High School	1.6%	1,458
Chippewa Falls Middle School	1.1%	1,064
Cornell Elementary School	0.5%	214
Halmstad Elementary School	1.1%	379
Hillcrest Elementary School	1.1%	374
Korger-Chestnut	0.6%	346
Parkview Elementary School	1.3%	392
Southview Elementary School	2.6%	310
Stanley Elementary School	0.7%	436
Stanley-Boyd High School	0.3%	339
Stanley-Boyd Middle School	2.4%	252
Stillson Elementary School	1.2%	334