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There were 124 Black students enrolled in Calumet County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 14.8% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Calumet County welcomed 6,865 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.8% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 22 schools in Calumet County, Madison Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 26 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
Berry Elementary School	1%	416
Brillion Elementary School	1.7%	412
Brillion High School	1.5%	341
Brillion Middle School	1%	194
Chilton Elementary School	0.3%	401
Chilton High School	1.5%	399
Chilton Middle School	0.6%	337
Hilbert High School	1.4%	140
Hilbert Middle School	1.9%	159
Horizons Elementary School	7.8%	321
Madison Middle School	4.3%	612
McKinley Elementary School	4.8%	482
New Holstein Elementary School	1.5%	463
New Holstein High School	0.6%	321
New Holstein Middle School	0.4%	235
Sunrise Elementary School	0.6%	467
Woodland Intermediate School	0.6%	337
Woodland School	0.7%	450