Chippewa Valley Times

There were 313 Black students enrolled in Eau Claire County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2.8% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Eau Claire County schools welcomed 14,226 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 2.2% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 36 schools in Eau Claire County, Memorial High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 46 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.

These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.

Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.

School name	% of Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Altoona Elementary School	1.3%	597
Altoona High School	1.4%	580
Altoona Intermediate School	2.3%	261
Altoona Middle School	2.5%	394
Augusta Elementary School	0.4%	230
Augusta High School	1.8%	164
Chippewa Valley Montessori Charter School	0.7%	305
Davey Elementary School	2.6%	352
DeLong Middle School	3.3%	861
Eau Claire Community Sites	1.3%	469
Eau Claire Virtual School	4.3%	141
Fall Creek Elementary School	0.7%	462
Fall Creek High School	0.4%	252
Fall Creek Middle School	0.5%	192
Flynn Elementary School	2.1%	235
Lakeshore Elementary School	4.7%	299
Locust Lane Elementary School	0.3%	323
Longfellow Elementary School	2.7%	264
Manz Elementary School	3.5%	339
McKinley Charter School	6.6%	137
Meadowview Elementary School	3.7%	407
Memorial High School	3%	1,558
North High School	2.6%	1,572
Northstar Middle School	1.7%	529
Northwoods Elementary School	2.4%	294
Prairie Ridge Early Learning School	1.7%	289
Putnam Heights Elementary School	2.4%	422
Robbins Elementary School	1.9%	534
Roosevelt Elementary School	1.3%	236
Second Avenue School	11.1%	18
Sherman Elementary School	0.6%	490
South Middle School	2.8%	792