Green Bay Reporter

There were 4,059 white students enrolled in Oconto County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.2% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Oconto County welcomed 4,514 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 89.9% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 19 schools in Oconto County, Oconto Falls High School and Sunnyside Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 475 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
Abrams Elementary School	89.7%	271
Fairview Elementary School	92.9%	113
Gillett Elementary School	79.2%	250
Gillett High School	89.9%	159
Gillett Middle School	83.3%	108
Lena Elementary School	96.1%	203
Lena High School	93.2%	133
Lena Middle School	95.4%	87
Northeast Wisconsin Learning Academy	87%	23
Oconto Elementary School	90.5%	368
Oconto Falls Elementary School	86.5%	519
Oconto Falls High School	91.2%	521
Oconto High School	88.9%	280
Oconto Middle School	91.7%	288
Sunnyside Elementary School	95.6%	497
Suring Elementary School	83.2%	208
Suring High School	90.7%	118
Washington Middle School	90.5%	368