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

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, making them the second least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the six districts in Pierce County, River Falls School District recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of six students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Pierce County.

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.

District	% of American Indian Students	Total Enrollment
Ellsworth Community School District	0.3%	1,624
Plum City School District	0.8%	240
Prescott School District	0.4%	1,243
River Falls School District	0.2%	3,488
Spring Valley School District	0.3%	708