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Jefferson County Education: 141 Black students were enrolled in schools in 2022-23 school year

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WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

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.

Ethnicities in Jefferson County in 2022-23 School Year
White [76.4%]Hispanic [17.4%]Ethnicities <5% [6.2%]
Enrollment in Jefferson County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Black students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Barrie Elementary School3.1%223
Cambridge High School0.4%241
East Elementary School0.7%308
Fort Atkinson 4K4.2%96
Fort Atkinson High School1.9%960
Fort Atkinson Middle School1.6%504
Ixonia Elementary School1.1%279
Jefferson High School0.7%607
Jefferson Middle School1%389
Johnson Creek Public School1.2%605
Lake Mills Elementary School0.3%610
Lake Mills Middle School0.5%410
Lincoln Elementary School3.3%154
Luther Elementary School0.4%226
Palmyra-Eagle Middle School3.5%114
Purdy Elementary School2.2%268
Riverside Middle School1.4%693
Rockwell Elementary School1.7%231
Schurz Elementary School3.3%244
Sullivan Elementary School2%154
Waterloo Elementary School1.4%285
Waterloo High School1.6%255
Waterloo Intermediate School1%105
Waterloo Middle School1.7%116
Watertown 4 Kids2.7%146
Webster Elementary School3.3%369
West Elementary School0.7%270
eCampus Academy Charter School7%128

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