Green Bay Reporter

There were 663 American Indian students enrolled in Shawano County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.6% 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, American Indian students comprised 13.4% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Shawano County, Shawano High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 136 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
Birnamwood Elementary School	2.8%	361
Bonduel Elementary School	2.7%	329
Bonduel High School	1.9%	260
Bonduel Middle School	3.4%	147
Bowler Elementary School	33.1%	148
Bowler High School	36.2%	149
Brener Elementary School	18.5%	433
Gresham Elementary School	23.2%	151
Gresham High School	28.2%	149
Hillcrest Primary School	20.4%	436
LEADS Primary Charter School	12.4%	81
Shawano Community Middle School	21.2%	485
Shawano High School	16.9%	803
Tigerton Elementary School	3.9%	128
Tigerton High School	3.1%	131
Wittenberg Elementary School	4.1%	443
Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School	2.7%	331