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There were 210 multiracial students enrolled in Lincoln County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.3% 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, multiracial students comprised 5.1% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 12 schools in Lincoln County, Bridges Virtual Academy recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 57 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 multiracial students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Bridges Virtual Academy	7.8%	731
Kate Goodrich Elementary School	7.7%	375
Merrill Adult Diploma Academy	11.5%	26
Merrill High School	4.9%	803
Pine River School for Young Learners (PRSYL)	4%	150
Prairie River Middle School	5.2%	593
Tomahawk Elementary School	2.9%	554
Tomahawk High School	1.1%	371
Tomahawk Middle School	1.8%	279
Washington Elementary School	8.7%	229