Green Bay Reporter

There were 3,437 white students enrolled in Shawano County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.3% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Shawano County welcomed 4,965 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 69.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Shawano County, Shawano High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 522 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 white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Birnamwood Elementary School	87.3%	361
Bonduel Elementary School	85.4%	329
Bonduel High School	90%	260
Bonduel Middle School	87.1%	147
Bowler Elementary School	41.9%	148
Bowler High School	43%	149
Brener Elementary School	58.4%	433
Gresham Elementary School	45.7%	151
Gresham High School	44.3%	149
Hillcrest Primary School	58%	436
LEADS Primary Charter School	67.9%	81
Shawano Community Middle School	57.7%	485
Shawano High School	65%	803
Tigerton Elementary School	85.2%	128
Tigerton High School	87%	131
Wittenberg Elementary School	81%	443
Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School	82.5%	331