Whitewater Times

There were 48 Black students enrolled in Fort Atkinson School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 2,523 students were enrolled in the Fort Atkinson School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.9% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the district.

Fort Atkinson School District roughly covers nine schools within Jefferson County and has a main office in Fort Atkinson.

Among the nine schools in Fort Atkinson School District, Fort Atkinson High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 18 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	2,523	48	1.9%
2021-22	2,591	40	1.5%
2020-21	2,652	47	1.8%
2019-20	2,768	55	2%
2018-19	2,843	45	1.6%
2017-18	2,812	53	1.9%
2016-17	2,797	55	2%
2015-16	2,906	43	1.5%
2014-15	2,906	48	1.7%
2013-14	2,985	52	1.7%
2012-13	3,042	52	1.7%
2011-12	3,000	51	1.7%
2010-11	2,957	42	1.4%
2009-10	2,899	40	1.4%
2008-09	2,883	39	1.4%
2007-08	2,727	34	1.3%
2006-07	2,683	30	1.1%