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Washington County Education: 57 American Indian students were enrolled in schools in 2022-23 school year

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

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

There were 57 American Indian students enrolled in Washington County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Washington County welcomed 18,493 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.3% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 35 schools in Washington County, Slinger Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of seven 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 Washington County in 2022-23 School Year
White [84%]Ethnicities <5% [9.4%]Hispanic [6.6%]
Enrollment in Washington County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of American Indian students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Addison Elementary School0.2%454
Badger Middle School0.6%851
Central Middle School0.2%552
County Line Elementary School0.2%478
Decorah Elementary School0.3%372
East High School0.3%965
Fair Park Elementary School0.9%350
Farmington Elementary School0.4%264
Germantown High School0.2%1,295
Green Tree Elementary School0.3%379
Hartford High School0.1%1,316
Jackson Elementary School0.3%321
Kennedy Middle School0.3%898
Kewaskum Elementary School0.9%551
Kewaskum High School0.2%571
Lincoln Elementary School0.2%506
MacArthur Elementary School0.2%485
McLane Elementary School1.1%380
Rolf's Early Childhood Center2.6%39
Rossman Elementary School0.7%459
Silverbrook Intermediate School0.1%718
Slinger Elementary School0.2%624
Slinger Middle School0.9%771
West Bend School District 4K1.1%276
West High School0.4%1,075

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