Whitewater Times

There were 3,571 Hispanic students enrolled in Walworth County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 3.3% 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, Hispanic students comprised 24.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 44 schools in Walworth County, Badger High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 308 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 Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Badger High School	24.2%	1,275
Big Foot High School	24.7%	449
Brookwood Elementary School	17%	212
Brookwood Middle School	23%	244
Career and College Academy	14.4%	222
Central - Denison Elementary School	27.9%	548
Darien Elementary School	51.5%	239
Delavan-Darien High School	50%	576
East Troy High School	7.2%	475
East Troy Middle School	7.8%	321
Eastview Elementary School	28.7%	247
Elkhorn Area High School	16.8%	941
Elkhorn Area Middle School	14.5%	676
Elkhorn Options Virtual School	9.2%	273
Fontana Elementary School	4.9%	203
JEDI Virtual K-12	7.9%	38
Jackson Elementary School	23%	500
Lake Geneva Middle School	26.7%	600
Lakeview Elementary School	29.5%	210
Lincoln Elementary School	43.9%	383
Little Prairie Primary School	7.4%	352
Lyons Center	19.5%	159
Maple Park Charter School	7.7%	26
New Visions Charter School	22.9%	35
Phoenix Middle School	54%	474
Prairie View Elementary School	8.8%	285
Reek Elementary School	9.7%	155
Sharon Community	22.8%	193
Star Center Elementary School	22.4%	340
Tibbets Elementary School	6.5%	447
Traver Elementary School	31%	87
Turtle Creek Elementary School	57.7%	392
Walworth Elementary School	30.1%	429
Washington Elementary School	39%	308
West Side Elementary School	15.3%	431
Whitewater 4K	16.7%	12
Whitewater High School	36%	595
Whitewater Middle School	37.8%	431
Williams Bay Elementary School	6.8%	296
Williams Bay High School	11.7%	180
Williams Bay Middle School	7%	143
Woods Elementary School	16.7%	150