Whitewater Times

There were 7,096 white students enrolled in Jefferson County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Jefferson County schools welcomed 9,364 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 75.8% of the student body to be the represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 30 schools in Jefferson County, Fort Atkinson High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 694 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
Barrie Elementary School	81.1%	212
Cambridge High School	90.7%	259
East Elementary School	76.7%	270
Fort Atkinson 4K	72.1%	68
Fort Atkinson High School	79.2%	876
Fort Atkinson Middle School	82%	462
Ixonia Elementary School	94.7%	265
Jefferson High School	73.3%	613
Jefferson Middle School	74.3%	373
Johnson Creek Public School	77.1%	620
Lake Mills Elementary School	84.9%	616
Lake Mills High School	82%	477
Lake Mills Middle School	85.1%	389
Lincoln Elementary School	84.9%	146
Luther Elementary School	68.8%	247
Palmyra-Eagle High School	82.6%	178
Palmyra-Eagle Middle School	83.8%	99
Purdy Elementary School	73.9%	268
Riverside Middle School	67.8%	649
Rockwell Elementary School	72.4%	199
Schurz Elementary School	35.2%	236
Sullivan Elementary School	95.4%	152
Waterloo Elementary School	65.2%	276
Waterloo High School	67.3%	260
Waterloo Intermediate School	67%	103
Waterloo Middle School	66.4%	107
Watertown 4 Kids	57.6%	172
Webster Elementary School	72.7%	373
West Elementary School	64.2%	257
eCampus Academy Charter School	67.6%	142