NE Wisconsin News

There were 75 Black students enrolled in Marinette County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 11.9% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Marinette County welcomed 5,665 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.3% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 24 schools in Marinette County, Marinette High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 24 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
Coleman Elementary School	0.6%	363
Coleman High School	0.4%	233
Crivitz Elementary School	0.2%	468
Crivitz High School	0.5%	219
Goodman High School	2.2%	45
Marinette High School	3.8%	635
Marinette Middle School	3.5%	567
Merryman Elementary School	1.7%	352
Niagara Elementary School	0.8%	249
Niagara High School	1%	194
Park Elementary School	2.2%	365
Pembine Elementary School	2.1%	142
Pembine High School	1.1%	93
Peshtigo Elementary School	0.4%	573
Peshtigo Middle School	0.6%	167