Chippewa Valley Times

There were 250 multiracial students enrolled in Chippewa County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 1.6% 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, multiracial students comprised 2.9% of the student body, making them the second most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the seven districts in Chippewa County, Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 189 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 multiracial Students	Total Enrollment
Bloomer School District	0.8%	1,263
Cadott Community School District	0.9%	807
Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District	4%	4,783
Cornell School District	1.2%	408
Lake Holcombe School District	1.9%	270
Stanley-Boyd Area School District	3.1%	1,089