Whitewater Times

There were 10,237 white students enrolled in Walworth County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Walworth County schools welcomed 14,552 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 70.3% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Walworth County, Badger High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 900 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.

These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.

Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Badger High School	70.6%	1,275
Big Foot High School	71.5%	449
Brookwood Elementary School	80.2%	212
Brookwood Middle School	75.8%	244
Career and College Academy	80.2%	222
Central - Denison Elementary School	67.2%	548
Darien Elementary School	43.1%	239
Delavan-Darien High School	45%	576
East Troy High School	89.3%	475
East Troy Middle School	87.2%	321
Eastview Elementary School	66.4%	247
Elkhorn Area High School	79.4%	941
Elkhorn Area Middle School	81.4%	676
Elkhorn Options Virtual School	85%	273
Fontana Elementary School	91.1%	203
JEDI Virtual K-12	84.2%	38
Jackson Elementary School	73%	500
Lake Geneva Middle School	70%	600
Lakeview Elementary School	61.4%	210
Lincoln Elementary School	42.8%	383
Little Prairie Primary School	86.7%	352
Lyons Center	76.7%	159
Maple Park Charter School	92.3%	26
New Visions Charter School	68.6%	35
Phoenix Middle School	40.7%	474
Prairie View Elementary School	86.7%	285
Reek Elementary School	83.9%	155
Sharon Community	74.6%	193
Star Center Elementary School	76.8%	340
Tibbets Elementary School	89.7%	447
Traver Elementary School	64.4%	87
Turtle Creek Elementary School	35%	392
Walworth Elementary School	62%	429
Washington Elementary School	53.9%	308
West Side Elementary School	79.6%	431
Whitewater 4K	75%	12
Whitewater High School	56%	595
Whitewater Middle School	56.6%	431
Williams Bay Elementary School	87.2%	296
Williams Bay High School	84.4%	180
Williams Bay Middle School	88.8%	143
Woods Elementary School	79.3%	150