NE Wisconsin News

There were 45 Black students enrolled in Door County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 18.4% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Door County welcomed 3,257 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.4% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 16 schools in Door County, Walker Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 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.

School name	% of Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Gibraltar High School	0.6%	180
Sawyer Elementary School	3.2%	248
Sevastopol Elementary School	0.4%	240
Sevastopol High School	0.6%	177
Sevastopol Middle School	1.9%	156
Southern Door Elementary School	0.5%	448
Southern Door High School	0.6%	327
Southern Door Middle School	0.5%	211
Sturgeon Bay High School	2.3%	393
Sunrise Elementary School	2.5%	201
Walker Middle School	5.4%	223