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Enrollment Analysis: American Indian students comprised 0.2% of Pierce County's student body in 2022-23 school year

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

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

There were 19 American Indian students enrolled in Pierce County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 24% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Pierce County welcomed 7,624 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 25 schools in Pierce County, Meyer Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of five 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 Pierce County in 2022-23 School Year
White [90.2%]Ethnicities <5% [9.8%]
Enrollment in Pierce County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of American Indian students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Ellsworth Elementary School0.1%730
Ellsworth High School0.2%519
Ellsworth Middle School0.5%375
Malone Elementary School0.2%460
Meyer Middle School0.7%738
Plum City Elementary School1.9%103
Prescott High School0.7%430
Prescott Middle School0.4%275
Spring Valley High School1%200
Westside Elementary School0.3%408

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