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There were 3,529 white students enrolled in Taylor County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Taylor County welcomed 3,949 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 89.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 11 schools in Taylor County, Rural Virtual Academy recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 896 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.

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Gilman Elementary School	96.7%	150
Gilman High School	96.1%	152
Medford Elementary School	87.8%	589
Medford High School	90.8%	692
Medford Middle School	91.2%	628
Rib Lake Elementary School	89.7%	223
Rib Lake High School	91%	133
Rib Lake Middle School	87.5%	88
Rural Virtual Academy	86.4%	1,037
Stetsonville Elementary School	86.8%	204
eSucceed Charter School	92.5%	53