Whitewater Times

There were 22 American Indian students enrolled in Walworth County schools in the 2023-24 school year, the same number as 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, American Indian students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Walworth County, Badger High School and Phoenix Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2023-24 school year, with three 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 American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Badger High School	0.2%	1,275
Career and College Academy	0.5%	222
East Troy Middle School	0.3%	321
Elkhorn Options Virtual School	0.4%	273
Fontana Elementary School	0.5%	203
Lakeview Elementary School	1%	210
Little Prairie Primary School	0.6%	352
Phoenix Middle School	0.6%	474
Sharon Community	0.5%	193
Tibbets Elementary School	0.2%	447
Turtle Creek Elementary School	0.3%	392
Walworth Elementary School	0.5%	429
Whitewater High School	0.3%	595
Williams Bay Elementary School	0.3%	296