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There were 321 American Indian students enrolled in Black River Falls School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 1,572 students were enrolled in the Black River Falls School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 20.4% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the district.

Black River Falls School District roughly covers six schools within Jackson County and has a main office in Black River Falls.

Among the six schools in Black River Falls School District, Black River Falls High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 111 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.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total American Indian Students	American Indian %
2022-23	1,572	321	20.4%
2021-22	1,593	354	22.2%
2020-21	1,654	391	23.6%
2019-20	1,714	389	22.7%
2018-19	1,742	405	23.3%
2017-18	1,710	393	23%
2016-17	1,729	405	23.4%
2015-16	1,758	389	22.1%
2014-15	1,802	393	21.8%
2013-14	1,831	374	20.4%
2012-13	1,789	353	19.7%
2011-12	1,824	346	19%
2010-11	1,797	321	17.9%
2009-10	1,843	359	19.5%
2008-09	1,898	367	19.3%
2007-08	1,809	342	18.9%
2006-07	1,834	344	18.8%