Chippewa Valley Times

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

Data showed that Chippewa County welcomed 8,620 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.1% of the student body, making them the third least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the seven districts in Chippewa County, Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 62 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Chippewa County.

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.

District	% of Black Students	Total Enrollment
Bloomer School District	1.3%	1,263
Cadott Community School District	0.3%	807
Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District	1.3%	4,783
Cornell School District	0.3%	408
Stanley-Boyd Area School District	1%	1,089