Southern Wisconsin Times

There were 1,783 Black students enrolled in Rock County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 8.7% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Rock County welcomed 25,197 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 7.1% of the student body, making them the third most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the nine districts in Rock County, Beloit School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,101 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Rock 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	% of Black Students	Total Enrollment
Beloit School District	21.3%	5,165
Beloit Turner School District	1.8%	1,631
Clinton Community School District	2.4%	1,062
Edgerton School District	1.1%	1,930
Evansville Community School District	1.8%	1,594
Janesville School District	5.7%	9,537
Milton School District	0.8%	3,425
Parkview School District	0.5%	853