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There were 37 Black students enrolled in Clark County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 14% 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, Black students comprised 0.8% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 21 schools in Clark County, Neillsville High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of seven 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
Abbotsford Elementary School	0.5%	388
Abbotsford Middle/Senior High School	1%	404
Colby High School	1%	304
Colby Middle School	0.9%	217
Greenwood Elementary School	3.1%	197
Greenwood High School	0.6%	165
Loyal Elementary School	1%	204
Neillsville Elementary School	0.8%	394
Neillsville High School	2.6%	268
Neillsville Middle School	2.2%	182
Owen-Withee Elementary School	0.5%	213
Owen-Withee High School	0.8%	123
Owen-Withee Junior High School	0.9%	106