Green Bay Reporter

There were 19 Black students enrolled in Kewaunee County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 13.6% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Kewaunee County schools welcomed 3,535 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 0.5% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Kewaunee County, Algoma Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2023-24 school year, with four 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.

School name	% of Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Algoma Elementary School	1.3%	319
Algoma High School	0.7%	280
Kewaunee Elementary School	0.3%	386
Kewaunee High School	0.3%	306
Kewaunee Middle School	1.1%	188
Luxemburg-Casco High School	0.5%	646
Luxemburg-Casco Intermediate School	0.5%	567
Luxemburg-Casco Middle School	0.7%	300
Luxemburg-Casco Primary School	0.2%	502