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Price County Education: 51 multiracial students were enrolled in schools in 2023-24 school year

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Jill Underly Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction | Oficial website

Jill Underly Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction | Oficial website

There were 51 multiracial students enrolled in Price County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 8.5% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Price County schools welcomed 1,481 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 3.4% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the nine schools in Price County, Park Falls Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 13 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.

These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.

Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.

Ethnicities in Price County in 2023-24 School Year
White [88.1%]Ethnicities <5% [11.9%]
Enrollment in Price County Schools During 2023-24 School Year
School name% of multiracial students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Chequamegon High School1.4%213
Park Falls Elementary School4.6%285
Phillips Elementary School4%304
Phillips High School2.9%204
Phillips Middle School3.8%160
Prentice Elementary School2.4%124
Prentice High School3.7%107
Prentice Middle School4.8%84

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