Green Bay Reporter

There were 3,491 white students enrolled in Oconto County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 0.1% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Oconto County welcomed 3,920 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 89.1% of the student body, making them the most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the six districts in Oconto County, Oconto Falls Public School District recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,512 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Oconto 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 white Students	Total Enrollment
Gillett School District	83.4%	517
Lena School District	95%	423
Oconto Falls Public School District	89.2%	1,695
Oconto Unified School District	90.3%	959
Suring Public School District	85.9%	326