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There were 948 Black students enrolled in Outagamie County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 7% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Outagamie County schools welcomed 31,380 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 3% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 72 schools in Outagamie County, West High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 114 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.

School name	% of Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
4K Center for Literacy	0.7%	290
Appleton Bilingual School	1.5%	134
Appleton Community 4K	5.8%	765
Appleton Cooperative Educational Center	33.3%	3
Appleton Public Montessori	0.7%	153
Appleton Technical Academy	2.6%	76
Appleton eSchool	2.7%	37
Badger Elementary School	10.8%	305
Black Creek Elementary School	0.6%	348
Classical School	4.2%	496
Columbus Elementary School	10.6%	132
Dr. H. B. Tanner Elementary School	1.2%	515
East High School	4.5%	1,327
Edison Elementary School	3.6%	252
Einstein Middle School	1.6%	559
Ferber Elementary School	2.2%	593
Fox Cities Leadership Academy	20.4%	49
Fox River Academy	0.8%	129
Franklin Elementary School	7.7%	297
Freedom High School	0.2%	481
Freedom Middle School	0.3%	350
Gerritts Middle School	0.8%	778
Greenville Elementary School	0.7%	611
Greenville Middle School	0.4%	757
Haen Elementary School	2.1%	291
Highlands Elementary School	4.8%	499
Hortonville Area K4 School	2.7%	113
Hortonville Elementary School	2.3%	475
Hortonville High School	0.5%	1,332
Hortonville Middle School	0.6%	487
Houdini Elementary School	2.5%	560
Huntley Elementary School	1.5%	650
Janssen Elementary School	2.1%	375
Jefferson Elementary School	13.3%	264
Johnston Elementary School	7.6%	409
Kaleidoscope Academy	7.8%	460
Kaukauna High School	1.8%	1,260
Kimberly High School	1.6%	1,571
Little Chute Elementary School	2.9%	586
Little Chute High School	2.6%	385
Little Chute Intermediate School	1.5%	203
Little Chute Middle School	2.7%	223
Mapleview Intermediate School	1.4%	419
New Directions Learning Community	0.8%	260
North High School	5.3%	1,612
Odyssey-Magellan	0.9%	214
Park Community Charter School	2%	252
Quinney Elementary School	1.7%	362
Renaissance School	1.9%	156
Richmond Elementary School	0.4%	278
River View School	1.4%	1,106
Rock Ledge Elementary School	0.4%	577
Ronald C. Dunlap Elementary School	9.3%	375
Seymour High School	0.7%	595
Shiocton Elementary School	0.6%	507
Shiocton High School	0.5%	214
Stephen Foster Elementary Charter	7.1%	253
Valley New School	1.5%	66
West High School	10.2%	1,118
Westside Elementary School	2.8%	430
Wilson Middle School	8.7%	381
Wisconsin Connections Academy	8.9%	672