Milwaukee South News

There were 446 American Indian students enrolled in Milwaukee County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 11.9% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Milwaukee County welcomed 118,254 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.4% of the student body, making them the second least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the 35 districts in Milwaukee County, Milwaukee School District recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 262 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Milwaukee County.

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.

District	% of American Indian Students	Total Enrollment
Brown Deer School District	0.1%	1,655
Cudahy School District	0.7%	2,093
Franklin Public School District	0.3%	4,781
Glendale-River Hills School District	0.2%	962
Greendale School District	0.3%	2,664
Greenfield School District	0.6%	3,493
Milwaukee School District	0.4%	67,500
Nicolet Union High School School District	0.3%	1,089
Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District	0.3%	6,510
Saint Francis School District	0.9%	1,066
Seeds of Health Inc.	0.3%	1,181
Shorewood School District	0.2%	1,933
South Milwaukee School District	0.4%	2,773
Wauwatosa School District	0.2%	6,935
West Allis-West Milwaukee School District	0.8%	7,095
Whitefish Bay School District	0%	2,860
Whitnall School District	0.1%	2,397