There were 14 American Indian students enrolled in Jefferson County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.
Data showed that Jefferson County welcomed 9,673 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.1% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the 30 schools in Jefferson County, Fort Atkinson Middle School, Jefferson Middle School, Johnson Creek Public School, and Lake Mills Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of two 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.
| School name | % of American Indian students enrollment | Total Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Atkinson High School | 0.1% | 960 |
| Fort Atkinson Middle School | 0.4% | 504 |
| Jefferson High School | 0.2% | 607 |
| Jefferson Middle School | 0.5% | 389 |
| Johnson Creek Public School | 0.3% | 605 |
| Lake Mills Elementary School | 0.3% | 610 |
| Riverside Middle School | 0.1% | 693 |
| Schurz Elementary School | 0.4% | 244 |
| Waterloo Intermediate School | 1% | 105 |
| West Elementary School | 0.4% | 270 |
