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There were 349 American Indian students enrolled in Outagamie County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 3.9% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Outagamie County welcomed 34,513 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 1% of the student body, making them the second least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the nine districts in Outagamie County, Seymour Community School District recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 166 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Outagamie County.

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.

District	% of American Indian Students	Total Enrollment
Appleton Area School District	0.6%	15,270
Freedom Area School District	2.6%	1,554
Hortonville Area School District	0.2%	4,258
Kaukauna Area School District	0.4%	4,057
Kimberly Area School District	0.2%	5,132
Little Chute Area School District	0.6%	1,582
Seymour Community School District	8.6%	1,928
Shiocton School District	0.1%	732