Enrollment Analysis: White students comprised 67.5% of Rock County's student body in 2022-23 school year

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

By Southern Wisconsin Times

Nov 22, 2023

There were 16,973 white students enrolled in Rock County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Rock County welcomed 25,150 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 67.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 64 schools in Rock County, Craig High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,099 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.

Ethnicities in Rock County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Rock County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
ARISE Virtual Academy	64.6%	147
Adams Elementary School	64.4%	295
Aldrich Intermediate School	29.2%	408
Beloit Early Learning	34.7%	49
Beloit Learning Academy	29.7%	195
Beloit Virtual School	45%	60
Clinton Elementary School	82.7%	532
Clinton High School	77.5%	355
Clinton Middle School	76.9%	160
Consolidated Elementary School	93%	86
Converse Elementary School	43.2%	317
Craig High School	72.2%	1,522
Cunningham Intermediate School	28.6%	427
East Elementary School	89%	427
Edgerton Community Elementary School	82.8%	844
Edgerton High School	84.7%	543
Edgerton Middle School	84.7%	424
Edison Middle School	68.7%	611
Evansville High School	86.3%	509
Fran Fruzen Intermediate School	31.5%	461
Franklin Middle School	57.7%	539
Garden Prairie Intermediate School	72.8%	482
Gaston Elementary School	40.6%	261
Hackett Elementary School	19.9%	287
Harmony Elementary School	92.9%	308
Harrison Elementary School	79.5%	258
J. C. McKenna Middle School	84.2%	373
Jackson Elementary School	60%	325
Jefferson Elementary School	67%	294
Kennedy Elementary School	71%	372
Levi Leonard Elementary School	84.4%	353
Lincoln Elementary School	57.2%	313
Madison Elementary School	60.5%	329
Marshall Middle School	73%	733
McNeel Intermediate School	35.9%	462
Memorial High School	32.6%	1,417
Merrill Elementary School	11.7%	180
Milton High School	87.8%	1,053
Milton Middle School	90.6%	511
Monroe Elementary School	70.3%	354
Northside Intermediate School	88.7%	715
Parker High School	70.8%	1,250
Parkview Elementary School	92.9%	450
Parkview High School	89.7%	234
Parkview Junior High School	90.7%	151
Powers Elementary School	74.9%	315
Preschool 4 Janesville	70.1%	391
Robinson Elementary School	31.3%	300
Rock River Charter School	61.9%	249
Rock University High School	74.7%	91
Roosevelt Elementary School	73.5%	354
TAGOS Leadership Academy	84.6%	26
Theodore Robinson Intermediate School	85.2%	358
Todd Elementary School	35.5%	341
Turner High School	73.2%	459
Turner Middle School	77.5%	368
Van Buren Elementary School	77.8%	401
Washington Elementary School	74.3%	400
West Elementary School	81.6%	320
Wilson Elementary School	33.1%	272
Yahara Elementary School	88.1%	118
Youth Services Center	27.3%	11