Green Bay Reporter

There were 81 Black students enrolled in West De Pere School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 3,598 students were enrolled in the West De Pere School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 2.3% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the district.

West De Pere School District roughly covers nine schools within Brown County and has a main office in De Pere.

Among the nine schools in West De Pere School District, West De Pere High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 29 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.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total Black Students	Black %
2022-23	3,598	81	2.3%
2021-22	3,586	79	2.2%
2020-21	3,587	89	2.5%
2019-20	3,628	94	2.6%
2018-19	3,556	92	2.6%
2017-18	3,511	106	3%
2016-17	3,384	94	2.8%
2015-16	3,365	115	3.4%
2014-15	3,197	96	3%
2013-14	3,078	94	3.1%
2012-13	2,994	94	3.1%
2011-12	2,944	93	3.2%
2010-11	2,874	89	3.1%
2009-10	2,772	83	3%
2008-09	2,704	78	2.9%
2007-08	2,467	61	2.5%