Green Bay Reporter

There were 22 Black students enrolled in Kewaunee County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 12% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Kewaunee County welcomed 3,519 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Kewaunee County, Luxemburg-Casco High 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
Algoma Elementary School	1.2%	338
Algoma High School	1.1%	285
Kewaunee Elementary School	0.5%	383
Kewaunee High School	0.3%	300
Kewaunee Middle School	0.6%	175
Luxemburg-Casco High School	0.8%	609
Luxemburg-Casco Intermediate School	0.7%	545
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School	0.3%	329
Luxemburg-Casco Primary School	0.2%	514