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There were 216 multiracial students enrolled in Waupaca County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.8% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Waupaca County welcomed 7,524 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 2.9% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 25 schools in Waupaca County, Waupaca Learning Center Elementary recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 30 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
Catalyst Academy	2.8%	36
Chain Exploration Center	5.3%	131
Clintonville High School	2%	401
Clintonville Middle School	3.9%	255
Fremont Elementary School	2.2%	91
Iola-Scandinavia Elementary School	0.7%	278
Iola-Scandinavia High School	3.5%	288
Lincoln Elementary School	2.1%	239
Little Wolf High School	2.9%	205
Longfellow Elementary School	3.2%	508
Manawa Elementary School	6.6%	244
Manawa Middle School	2.6%	115
Marion Elementary School	4.8%	249
Marion High School	4%	202
New London High School	1.5%	674
New London Middle School	1.9%	596
Parkview Elementary School	3.5%	289
Readfield Elementary School	2.2%	134
Waupaca Community 4-Year Old Kindergarten	5.4%	130
Waupaca High School	2.5%	602
Waupaca Learning Center Elementary	4.9%	615
Waupaca Middle School	1.7%	521
Weyauwega Elementary School	2%	256
Weyauwega High School	2.1%	290
Weyauwega Middle School	2.3%	175