Southern Wisconsin Times

There were 50 American Indian students enrolled in Rock County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 18% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Rock County schools welcomed 25,100 students during the 2023-24 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 2023-24 school year, with six 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.

These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.

Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.

School name	% of American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Adams Elementary School	1%	295
Aldrich Intermediate School	0.2%	502
Craig High School	0.4%	1,467
Edgerton High School	0.2%	562
Edison Middle School	0.2%	597
Evansville High School	0.2%	518
Franklin Middle School	0.2%	516
Garden Prairie Intermediate School	0.2%	497
Gaston Elementary School	0.3%	347
Hackett Elementary School	0.5%	411
J. C. McKenna Middle School	0.3%	362
Kennedy Elementary School	0.3%	391
Levi Leonard Elementary School	0.2%	460
Lincoln Elementary School	0.3%	320
Marshall Middle School	0.4%	730
Memorial High School	0.4%	1,378
Milton High School	0.2%	1,054
Northside Intermediate School	0.1%	762
Parker High School	0.3%	1,291
Parkview Junior High School	0.6%	171
Preschool 4 Janesville	0.3%	333
Rock River Charter School	0.4%	253
Roosevelt Elementary School	0.3%	369
Theodore Robinson Intermediate School	0.3%	357
Van Buren Elementary School	0.5%	405
Washington Elementary School	0.5%	408
West Elementary School	0.9%	324
Wilson Elementary School	0.4%	260