Whitewater Times

There were 3,692 Hispanic students enrolled in Walworth County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 4.7% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Walworth County welcomed 14,964 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 24.7% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Walworth County, Badger High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 327 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 Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Badger High School	24.7%	1,326
Big Foot High School	22.8%	456
Brookwood Elementary School	30.3%	221
Brookwood Middle School	39.1%	248
Career and College Academy	16.8%	185
Central - Denison Elementary School	30%	566
Darien Elementary School	50.4%	242
Delavan-Darien High School	49.9%	585
East Troy High School	5.6%	500
East Troy Middle School	6.8%	324
Eastview Elementary School	25.9%	232
Elkhorn Area High School	17.3%	974
Elkhorn Area Middle School	15.5%	705
Elkhorn Options Virtual School	8.3%	301
Fontana Elementary School	4.9%	206
JEDI Virtual K-12	2.5%	40
Jackson Elementary School	22.3%	521
Lake Geneva Middle School	26.5%	615
Lakeview Elementary School	23.3%	193
Lincoln Elementary School	44.2%	382
Little Prairie Primary School	7.4%	338
Lyons Center	16.2%	154
Maple Park Charter School	9.8%	41
New Visions Charter School	19.1%	21
Phoenix Middle School	55.2%	487
Prairie View Elementary School	8.2%	294
Reek Elementary School	7.4%	148
Sharon Community	26.5%	196
Star Center Elementary School	23.5%	370
Tibbets Elementary School	6.1%	444
Traver Elementary School	31.6%	95
Turtle Creek Elementary School	56.2%	445
Walworth Elementary School	30.3%	432
Washington Elementary School	41.9%	325
West Side Elementary School	13.5%	452
Whitewater 4K	12%	25
Whitewater High School	32.7%	612
Whitewater Middle School	39.2%	444
Williams Bay Elementary School	5.6%	319
Williams Bay High School	2.4%	208
Williams Bay Middle School	4.3%	140
Woods Elementary School	15.8%	152