Whitewater Times

The majority of students in Jefferson County districts were white in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of the 11,559 students attending Jefferson County district schools, 75.9% were white. Hispanic students were the second largest ethnic group among Jefferson County's districts, making up 17.4% of the student body.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Jefferson County districts, representing 76.8% of the student body.

Fort Atkinson School District, Jefferson School District and Watertown Unified School District had the most diverse student body in the county, which included American Indian, Asian, African American, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, multiracial, and white.

In the 2023-24 school year, the total number of students enrolled in school districts in the county dropped to 2.3% compared to the previous year.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Jefferson County.

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.

District	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Cambridge School District	White	91.3	909
Fort Atkinson School District	White	77.6	2,357
Jefferson School District	White	74.7	1,666
Johnson Creek School District	White	77.1	620
Lake Mills Area School District	White	84	1,485
Palmyra-Eagle Area School District	White	82.7	543
Waterloo School District	White	66.2	748
Watertown Unified School District	White	68	3,231