Whitewater Times

There were 10 Black students enrolled in Palmyra-Eagle Area School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 574 students were enrolled in the Palmyra-Eagle Area School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.7% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the district.

Palmyra-Eagle Area School District roughly covers five schools within Jefferson County and has a main office in Palmyra.

Among the five schools in Palmyra-Eagle Area School District, Eagle Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of six 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.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total Black Students	Black %
2022-23	574	10	1.7%
2021-22	595	6	1%
2020-21	587	8	1.4%
2019-20	647	9	1.4%
2018-19	769	8	1%
2017-18	805	3	0.4%
2016-17	802	2	0.3%
2015-16	871	4	0.5%
2014-15	907	5	0.6%
2013-14	950	4	0.4%
2012-13	1,019	3	0.3%
2011-12	1,122	4	0.4%
2010-11	1,138	3	0.3%
2009-10	1,152	2	0.2%
2008-09	1,175	2	0.2%
2007-08	1,217	3	0.3%