Enrollment Analysis: White students comprised 88.5% of Marinette County's student body in 2023-24 school year

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By NE Wisconsin News

Oct 5, 2024

There were 5,011 white students enrolled in Marinette County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 0.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Marinette County schools welcomed 5,664 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 88.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 24 schools in Marinette County, Marinette High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 552 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.

Ethnicities in Marinette County in 2023-24 School Year

Enrollment in Marinette County Schools During 2023-24 School Year

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Coleman Elementary School	88.3%	360
Coleman High School	90.4%	229
Coleman Middle School	84.4%	128
Crivitz Elementary School	92.1%	483
Crivitz High School	87.1%	202
Crivitz Middle School	90.3%	113
Goodman High School	91.4%	35
Goodman-Armstrong Elementary School	94.4%	36
Marinette High School	85.5%	646
Marinette Middle School	83.9%	541
Merryman Elementary School	84.4%	378
Niagara Elementary School	90.6%	256
Niagara High School	94.6%	186
Park Elementary School	79.6%	393
Pembine Elementary School	88.1%	159
Pembine High School	93.2%	88
Peshtigo Elementary School	90.2%	562
Peshtigo High School	95.7%	328
Peshtigo Middle School	91.9%	160
Wausaukee Elementary School	91.8%	147
Wausaukee High School	93.6%	125
Wausaukee Middle School	92.7%	109