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There were 100 white students enrolled in Mercer School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 123 students were enrolled in the Mercer School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 81.3% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the district.

Mercer School District roughly covers three schools within Iron County and has a main office in Mercer.

Among the three schools in Mercer School District, Mercer School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 98 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.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total white Students	white %
2022-23	123	100	81.3%
2021-22	112	93	83%
2020-21	129	111	86.1%
2019-20	158	134	84.8%
2018-19	145	127	87.6%
2017-18	151	133	88.1%
2016-17	146	130	89%
2015-16	147	134	91.2%
2014-15	144	129	89.6%
2013-14	138	131	94.9%
2012-13	142	135	95.1%
2011-12	135	126	93.3%
2010-11	122	115	94.3%
2009-10	137	131	95.6%
2008-09	158	145	91.8%
2007-08	158	153	96.8%
2006-07	170	166	97.7%