NE Wisconsin News

There were 80 Black students enrolled in Marinette County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 6.7% more 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, Black students comprised 1.4% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 24 schools in Marinette County, Marinette Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 21 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
Coleman Elementary School	0.6%	360
Crivitz Elementary School	0.2%	483
Crivitz High School	0.5%	202
Goodman High School	2.9%	35
Marinette High School	2.5%	646
Marinette Middle School	3.9%	541
Merryman Elementary School	2.9%	378
Niagara Elementary School	0.8%	256
Niagara High School	1.1%	186
Park Elementary School	2.5%	393
Pembine Elementary School	2.5%	159
Pembine High School	2.3%	88
Peshtigo Elementary School	0.5%	562
Peshtigo High School	0.3%	328
Peshtigo Middle School	0.6%	160
Wausaukee Middle School	1.8%	109