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There were 3,662 white students enrolled in Lincoln County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.7% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Lincoln County welcomed 4,111 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 89.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Lincoln County, Merrill High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 722 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
Bridges Virtual Academy	81.8%	731
Kate Goodrich Elementary School	87.2%	375
Merrill Adult Diploma Academy	84.6%	26
Merrill High School	89.9%	803
Pine River School for Young Learners (PRSYL)	91.3%	150
Prairie River Middle School	89.5%	593
Tomahawk Elementary School	93%	554
Tomahawk High School	95.2%	371
Tomahawk Middle School	93.2%	279
Washington Elementary School	86%	229