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There were 20 American Indian students enrolled in Clark County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 16.7% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Clark County welcomed 4,581 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.4% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 21 schools in Clark County, Colby Elementary School, Greenwood High School, Loyal High School, and Neillsville Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of three 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 American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Colby Elementary School	0.9%	353
Colby High School	0.3%	304
Greenwood Elementary School	0.5%	197
Greenwood High School	1.8%	165
Loyal High School	1.9%	155
Loyal Middle School	0.9%	111
Neillsville Elementary School	0.5%	394
Neillsville High School	0.4%	268
Neillsville Middle School	1.7%	182
Owen-Withee Elementary School	0.5%	213
Owen-Withee Junior High School	0.9%	106