Green Bay Reporter

There were 2,012 Black students enrolled in Brown County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 3% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Brown County welcomed 42,770 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 4.7% of the student body, making them the third least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the 11 districts in Brown County, Green Bay Area Public School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,634 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Brown County.

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.

District	% of Black Students	Total Enrollment
Ashwaubenon School District	3%	3,215
De Pere School District	1.4%	4,555
Denmark School District	0.7%	1,622
Green Bay Area Public School District	8.6%	18,922
Howard-Suamico School District	1.5%	5,781
Pulaski Community School District	0.7%	3,775
West De Pere School District	2.3%	3,598
Wrightstown Community School District	0.8%	1,302