Whitewater Times

There were 9,080 white students enrolled in Jefferson County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 2.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Jefferson County welcomed 11,829 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 76.8% of the student body, making them the most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the eight districts in Jefferson County, Watertown Unified School District recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 2,237 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Jefferson 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 white Students	Total Enrollment
Cambridge School District	91.6%	915
Fort Atkinson School District	78.9%	2,523
Jefferson School District	75%	1,731
Johnson Creek School District	76.4%	605
Lake Mills Area School District	84.5%	1,511
Palmyra-Eagle Area School District	83.1%	574
Waterloo School District	65.1%	768
Watertown Unified School District	69.9%	3,202