Green Bay Reporter

There were 4,056 white students enrolled in Oconto County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 0.1% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Oconto County schools welcomed 4,537 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 89.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 19 schools in Oconto County, Oconto Falls High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 486 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 white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Abrams Elementary School	90.2%	275
Fairview Elementary School	90%	110
Gillett Elementary School	79.7%	291
Gillett High School	86.5%	163
Gillett Middle School	80.5%	118
Lena Elementary School	95.6%	206
Lena High School	92.2%	115
Lena Middle School	94.4%	89
Northeast Wisconsin Learning Academy	79%	19
Oconto Elementary School	90.7%	354
Oconto Falls Elementary School	87.6%	498
Oconto Falls High School	91%	534
Oconto High School	87.6%	265
Oconto Middle School	90.7%	300
Sunnyside Elementary School	96.6%	501
Suring Elementary School	83%	206
Suring High School	87.3%	134
Washington Middle School	89.1%	359