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There were 477 American Indian students enrolled in Vilas County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.6% less 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, American Indian students comprised 17.9% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 13 schools in Vilas County, Lac du Flambeau Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 422 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 American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary School	7.1%	521
Lac du Flambeau Elementary School	81.9%	515
North Lakeland Elementary School	0.7%	153
Northland Pines Elementary - Land O'Lakes	1.8%	55
Northland Pines Elementary School - Saint Germain	2.2%	90
Northland Pines Elementary-Eagle River	0.4%	498
Northland Pines High School	1.7%	417
Northland Pines Middle School	1.1%	182
Phelps High School	3.5%	29
School of Options & Applied Research High	6.3%	32