There were 712 Hispanic students enrolled in Wood County schools in 2022-23 school year

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

By Central Wisconsin News

Nov 12, 2023

There were 712 Hispanic students enrolled in Wood County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.2% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Wood County welcomed 11,258 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 6.3% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Wood County, Marshfield High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 92 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.

Ethnicities in Wood County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Wood County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Alexander Middle School	12.8%	359
Auburndale Elementary School	5.3%	419
Auburndale High School	4.9%	410
Central Wisconsin STEM Academy	4.6%	22
Grant Elementary School	4.5%	604
Grove Elementary School	6.6%	197
Howe Elementary School	8.6%	338
Humke Elementary School	7.1%	339
John Edwards High School	2.3%	131
John Edwards Middle School	2%	100
Lincoln Elementary School	8.7%	275
Lincoln High School	4.9%	1,380
Madison Elementary School	11.4%	282
Marshfield High School	7.4%	1,242
Marshfield K4	5.6%	195
Marshfield Middle School	7.3%	563
Mead Elementary School	9.5%	296
Nasonville Elementary School	4.2%	289
Nekoosa Academy	4.6%	22
Nekoosa High School	8.5%	295
Pittsville Elementary School	6%	383
Pittsville High School	4.1%	169
Port Edwards Education Heuer Elementary School	5.1%	216
River Cities High School	9.3%	86
THINK Academy-Together Helping INspire Kids	2.9%	208
WRPS Four-year-old Kindergarten and PK Early Childhood	8.2%	233
Washington Elementary School	4.8%	314
Washington Elementary School	4.4%	314
Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle School	7.9%	924
Woodside Elementary School	4.9%	349