Whitewater Times

There were 424 multiracial students enrolled in Jefferson County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 3.4% more 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, multiracial students comprised 3.6% of the student body, making them the third most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the eight districts in Jefferson County, Watertown Unified School District recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 160 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 multiracial Students	Total Enrollment
Cambridge School District	3.2%	915
Fort Atkinson School District	2.7%	2,523
Jefferson School District	3.1%	1,731
Johnson Creek School District	2.3%	605
Lake Mills Area School District	3.5%	1,511
Palmyra-Eagle Area School District	2.4%	574
Waterloo School District	4.3%	768
Watertown Unified School District	5%	3,202