Whitewater Times

There were 10,388 white students enrolled in Walworth County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 2.8% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Walworth County welcomed 14,850 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 70% of the student body, making them the most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the 17 districts in Walworth County, Elkhorn Area School District recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 2,887 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Walworth 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
Big Foot UHS School District	73%	456
Delavan-Darien School District	41.7%	1,817
East Troy Community School District	88.6%	1,456
Elkhorn Area School District	80.6%	3,582
Fontana J8 School District	89.8%	206
Geneva J4 School District	80.9%	152
Genoa City J2 School District	63.5%	469
Lake Geneva J1 School District	69.4%	1,824
Lake Geneva-Genoa City UHS School District	70.6%	1,347
Linn J4 School District	63.2%	95
Linn J6 School District	86.5%	148
Sharon J11 School District	73.1%	208
Walworth J1 School District	61.8%	432
Whitewater Unified School District	54.3%	1,986
Williams Bay School District	90.9%	672