Whitewater Times

There were 193 Black 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, Black students comprised 1.3% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Walworth County, Lincoln Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2023-24 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.

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 Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Badger High School	1.3%	1,275
Big Foot High School	1.3%	449
Brookwood Elementary School	0.5%	212
Career and College Academy	1.8%	222
Central - Denison Elementary School	1.1%	548
Darien Elementary School	0.8%	239
Delavan-Darien High School	1.9%	576
East Troy High School	0.8%	475
East Troy Middle School	1.3%	321
Eastview Elementary School	1.2%	247
Elkhorn Area High School	1%	941
Elkhorn Area Middle School	1.2%	676
Elkhorn Options Virtual School	2.6%	273
Fontana Elementary School	1%	203
JEDI Virtual K-12	5.3%	38
Jackson Elementary School	1.4%	500
Lake Geneva Middle School	0.5%	600
Lakeview Elementary School	1.4%	210
Lincoln Elementary School	4.7%	383
Little Prairie Primary School	1.4%	352
Phoenix Middle School	1.1%	474
Prairie View Elementary School	1.8%	285
Reek Elementary School	0.7%	155
Star Center Elementary School	0.3%	340
Tibbets Elementary School	0.2%	447
Turtle Creek Elementary School	3.1%	392
Walworth Elementary School	0.2%	429
Washington Elementary School	2%	308
West Side Elementary School	1.9%	431
Whitewater 4K	8.3%	12
Whitewater High School	2.9%	595
Whitewater Middle School	2.1%	431
Williams Bay Elementary School	1%	296
Woods Elementary School	1.3%	150