Chippewa Valley Times

There were 78 American Indian students enrolled in Eau Claire County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 5.4% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Eau Claire County welcomed 14,237 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.5% of the student body, making them the second least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the four districts in Eau Claire County, Eau Claire Area School District recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 65 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Eau Claire 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 American Indian Students	Total Enrollment
Altoona School District	0.2%	1,891
Augusta School District	1.2%	604
Eau Claire Area School District	0.6%	10,871
Fall Creek School District	0.3%	871