Green Bay Reporter

There were 31 Black students enrolled in Shawano County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 10.7% more 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, Black students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Shawano County, Brener Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of five 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
Birnamwood Elementary School	0.3%	361
Bonduel Elementary School	0.9%	329
Bonduel High School	0.8%	260
Bonduel Middle School	0.7%	147
Bowler Elementary School	0.7%	148
Bowler High School	1.3%	149
Brener Elementary School	1.2%	433
Gresham Elementary School	0.7%	151
Gresham High School	0.7%	149
Hillcrest Primary School	0.5%	436
LEADS Primary Charter School	1.2%	81
Shawano Community Middle School	0.6%	485
Shawano High School	0.1%	803
Tigerton Elementary School	0.8%	128
Wittenberg Elementary School	0.7%	443
Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School	0.9%	331