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There were 72 Black students enrolled in Pierce County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 7.5% more 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, Black students comprised 0.9% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 25 schools in Pierce County, River Falls High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 17 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.

School name	% of Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Ellsworth Elementary School	0.3%	730
Ellsworth High School	0.6%	519
Ellsworth Middle School	0.3%	375
Elmwood High School	1.1%	90
Greenwood Elementary School	1.8%	392
Malone Elementary School	1.3%	460
Meyer Middle School	1.2%	738
Prescott High School	0.2%	430
Prescott Middle School	0.7%	275
Renaissance Charter Academy	3.9%	51
River Falls 4 Children	0.6%	160
River Falls High School	1.5%	1,112
River Falls Public Montessori Academy	1.1%	190
River Falls eSchool	11.1%	9
Rocky Branch Elementary School	1.9%	428
Spring Valley Middle School	0.7%	154
Western Wisconsin Virtual Charter School (WWVC)	20%	10
Westside Elementary School	1.5%	408