Rock County Education: 61 American Indian students were enrolled in schools in 2022-23 school year

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

By Southern Wisconsin Times

Oct 29, 2023

There were 61 American Indian students enrolled in Rock County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.7% more 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, American Indian students comprised 0.2% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 64 schools in Rock County, Craig High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of eight 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 American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Adams Elementary School	0.7%	295
Beloit Virtual School	3.3%	60
Clinton High School	0.6%	355
Clinton Middle School	0.6%	160
Craig High School	0.5%	1,522
Cunningham Intermediate School	1.2%	427
Edgerton High School	0.2%	543
Fran Fruzen Intermediate School	0.2%	461
Franklin Middle School	0.6%	539
Garden Prairie Intermediate School	0.2%	482
Hackett Elementary School	0.4%	287
Harmony Elementary School	0.3%	308
J. C. McKenna Middle School	0.5%	373
Jackson Elementary School	0.3%	325
Kennedy Elementary School	0.3%	372
Levi Leonard Elementary School	0.3%	353
Lincoln Elementary School	0.3%	313
Madison Elementary School	0.3%	329
Marshall Middle School	0.4%	733
McNeel Intermediate School	0.2%	462
Memorial High School	0.4%	1,417
Milton High School	0.3%	1,053
Parker High School	0.2%	1,250
Parkview High School	0.4%	234
Preschool 4 Janesville	0.8%	391
Rock River Charter School	0.4%	249
Roosevelt Elementary School	0.3%	354
Van Buren Elementary School	0.3%	401
Washington Elementary School	0.3%	400
West Elementary School	0.6%	320
Wilson Elementary School	0.4%	272