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Wood County Education: 459 multiracial students were enrolled in schools in 2023-24 school year

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Jill Underly Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction | Wikipedia

Jill Underly Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction | Wikipedia

There were 459 multiracial students enrolled in Wood County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Wood County schools welcomed 11,084 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 4.1% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Wood County, Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 52 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.

Ethnicities in Wood County in 2023-24 School Year
White [84%]Ethnicities <5% [9.2%]Hispanic [6.8%]
Enrollment in Wood County Schools During 2023-24 School Year
School name% of multiracial students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Alexander Middle School4.8%333
Auburndale Elementary School1.7%423
Auburndale High School2.3%398
Central Oaks Academy5.2%97
Grant Elementary School3.9%584
Grove Elementary School9.6%198
Howe Elementary School7%329
Humke Elementary School3.9%335
John Edwards High School2.1%145
John Edwards Middle School1%102
Lincoln Elementary School3.2%278
Lincoln High School3.7%1,380
Madison Elementary School1.8%274
Marshfield High School3.7%1,244
Marshfield K40.6%173
Marshfield Middle School2.3%555
Mead Elementary School11.6%294
Nasonville Elementary School1.9%262
Nekoosa Academy6.9%29
Nekoosa High School5.4%279
Pittsville Elementary School1.7%364
Pittsville High School2.3%176
Port Edwards Education Heuer Elementary School8.1%197
River Cities High School5.3%76
THINK Academy-Together Helping INspire Kids1.5%206
WRPS Four-year-old Kindergarten and PK Early Childhood7.1%241
Washington Elementary School8%312
Washington Elementary School5.7%312
Wisconsin Rapids Area Middle School5.7%912
Woodside Elementary School4.4%341

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