Whitewater Times

There were 141 Black students enrolled in Jefferson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Jefferson County welcomed 9,673 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.5% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 30 schools in Jefferson County, Fort Atkinson High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 18 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
Barrie Elementary School	3.1%	223
Cambridge High School	0.4%	241
East Elementary School	0.7%	308
Fort Atkinson 4K	4.2%	96
Fort Atkinson High School	1.9%	960
Fort Atkinson Middle School	1.6%	504
Ixonia Elementary School	1.1%	279
Jefferson High School	0.7%	607
Jefferson Middle School	1%	389
Johnson Creek Public School	1.2%	605
Lake Mills Elementary School	0.3%	610
Lake Mills Middle School	0.5%	410
Lincoln Elementary School	3.3%	154
Luther Elementary School	0.4%	226
Palmyra-Eagle Middle School	3.5%	114
Purdy Elementary School	2.2%	268
Riverside Middle School	1.4%	693
Rockwell Elementary School	1.7%	231
Schurz Elementary School	3.3%	244
Sullivan Elementary School	2%	154
Waterloo Elementary School	1.4%	285
Waterloo High School	1.6%	255
Waterloo Intermediate School	1%	105
Waterloo Middle School	1.7%	116
Watertown 4 Kids	2.7%	146
Webster Elementary School	3.3%	369
West Elementary School	0.7%	270
eCampus Academy Charter School	7%	128