Shawano County Education: 3,355 white students were enrolled in schools in 2023-24 school year

Jill Underly Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction | Oficial website

By Green Bay Reporter

Oct 7, 2024

There were 3,355 white students enrolled in Shawano County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Shawano County schools welcomed 4,897 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 68.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Shawano County, Shawano High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 499 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.

These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.

Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.

Ethnicities in Shawano County in 2023-24 School Year

Enrollment in Shawano County Schools During 2023-24 School Year

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Birnamwood Elementary School	91.5%	340
Bonduel Elementary School	86.1%	294
Bonduel High School	90.7%	259
Bonduel Middle School	85.1%	201
Bowler Elementary School	38.3%	167
Bowler High School	42.7%	136
Brener Elementary School	52.9%	399
Gresham Elementary School	45.3%	139
Gresham High School	40.1%	162
Hillcrest Primary School	58.4%	435
LEADS Primary Charter School	61.2%	85
Shawano Community Middle School	55.6%	468
Shawano High School	64.8%	770
Tigerton Elementary School	84.3%	121
Tigerton High School	85.5%	124
Wittenberg Elementary School	81.1%	459
Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School	82.5%	338