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There were 1,126 Black students enrolled in Winnebago County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 10.8% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Winnebago County welcomed 21,739 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 5.2% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 57 schools in Winnebago County, North High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 159 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 Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Accelerated Advanced Learning Program	1.7%	60
Banta School	1.2%	165
Butte des Morts Elementary School	6%	336
Clayton Elementary School	1.6%	251
Clovis Grove Elementary School	10.6%	482
Coolidge Elementary School	5.7%	349
E. Cook Elementary School	16.8%	226
Franklin Elementary School	4.6%	345
Gegan Elementary School	10%	269
Hoover Elementary School	4.7%	236
Horace Mann Middle School	2.5%	519
Jefferson Elementary School	6.6%	152
Jefferson Elementary School	8.3%	152
Lakeside Elementary School	4.1%	243
Lakeview Elementary School	0.3%	405
Maplewood Middle School	6.2%	725
Menasha High School	6.4%	966
Merrill Elementary School	18.6%	242
Merrill Middle School	14.4%	453
Neenah High School	2.7%	1,943
North High School	12.6%	1,265
Oaklawn Elementary School	9.7%	392
Oakwood Elementary School	1.7%	409
Omro Elementary School	0.3%	302
Omro High School	0.9%	334
Omro Middle School	1.1%	263
Patch Elementary School	0.5%	208
Read Elementary School	19.2%	375
Ready 4 Learning School	7.8%	574
Roosevelt Elementary School	6.3%	240
Roosevelt Elementary School	3.5%	240
Shapiro STEM Academy	4%	202
Shattuck Middle School	2.3%	978
South Park Middle School	4.9%	327
Spring Road Elementary School	0.8%	359
Taft Elementary School	7.4%	229
Tipler Middle School	3.8%	341
Traeger Elementary School	3%	439
Traeger Middle School	1.9%	431
Tullar Elementary School	0.3%	392
Washington Elementary School	8.6%	174
Washington School of Early Learning	3.6%	365
Webster Stanley Elementary School	8.2%	207
Webster Stanley Middle School	13.1%	335
West High School	3.4%	1,627
Wilson Elementary School	4.1%	267
Winneconne Elementary School	0.2%	874
Winneconne High School	0.7%	539
Winneconne Middle School	0.8%	383