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There were 1,890 white students enrolled in Vilas County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.5% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Vilas County welcomed 2,665 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 70.9% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Vilas County, Northland Pines Elementary-Eagle River recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 445 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
Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary School	81.2%	521
Lac du Flambeau Elementary School	2.3%	515
North Lakeland Elementary School	94.8%	153
Northland Pines Elementary - Land O'Lakes	89.1%	55
Northland Pines Elementary School - Saint Germain	82.2%	90
Northland Pines Elementary-Eagle River	89.4%	498
Northland Pines High School	88%	417
Northland Pines Middle School	88.5%	182
Northland Pines Montessori Learning Center (NPMLC)	91.6%	71
Phelps Elementary School	89.3%	56
Phelps High School	93.1%	29
School of Options & Applied Research High	90.6%	32
School of Options & Applied Research Middle	93.5%	46