Whitewater Times

There were 15 Black students enrolled in Jefferson School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 1,731 students were enrolled in the Jefferson School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 0.9% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the district.

Jefferson School District roughly covers seven schools within Jefferson County and has a main office in Jefferson.

Among the seven schools in Jefferson School District, Jefferson High School and Jefferson Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four 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	1,731	15	0.9%
2021-22	1,752	17	1%
2020-21	1,806	16	0.9%
2019-20	1,821	29	1.6%
2018-19	1,874	34	1.8%
2017-18	1,932	32	1.7%
2016-17	1,905	38	2%
2015-16	1,957	30	1.5%
2014-15	1,928	32	1.7%
2013-14	1,935	32	1.7%
2012-13	1,924	29	1.5%
2011-12	1,932	24	1.2%
2010-11	1,901	30	1.6%
2009-10	1,901	25	1.3%
2008-09	1,884	27	1.4%
2007-08	1,798	22	1.2%
2006-07	1,816	33	1.8%