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There were 89 American Indian students enrolled in Winnebago County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 7.2% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Winnebago County schools welcomed 21,612 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.4% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 57 schools in Winnebago County, Shattuck Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 12 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 American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Butte des Morts Elementary School	1.1%	359
Clovis Grove Elementary School	0.7%	457
Coolidge Elementary School	0.4%	274
E. Cook Elementary School	0.8%	246
Fox Valley Virtual School	1.3%	79
Gegan Elementary School	0.4%	285
Hoover Elementary School	0.5%	189
Jefferson Elementary School	1.3%	152
Jefferson Elementary School	1.2%	152
Lakeside Elementary School	0.9%	218
Maplewood Middle School	0.6%	656
Menasha High School	0.3%	1,017
Merrill Elementary School	1.2%	256
Merrill Middle School	0.6%	811
Neenah High School	0.3%	1,944
North High School	0.6%	1,262
Patch Elementary School	1%	197
Read Elementary School	0.3%	344
Ready 4 Learning School	0.8%	534
Shattuck Middle School	0.6%	1,941
South Park Middle School	0.6%	329
Taft Elementary School	0.5%	185
Tullar Elementary School	0.6%	339
Washington School of Early Learning	0.4%	287
Webster Stanley Elementary School	0.5%	204
West High School	0.4%	1,669
Wilson Elementary School	1%	302
Winneconne Elementary School	0.5%	851
Winneconne High School	0.2%	507