Enrollment Analysis: White students comprised 82.5% of Sauk County's student body in 2022-23 school year

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

By SW Wisconsin News

Nov 22, 2023

There were 8,428 white students enrolled in Sauk County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.9% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Sauk County welcomed 10,221 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 82.5% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Sauk County, Reedsburg Area High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 755 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 Sauk County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Sauk County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
4K Community-Based	68.9%	61
Al Behrman Elementary School	77%	269
BELC--Renewal Head Start	57.1%	14
Baraboo Early Learning Cooperative	73.9%	88
Baraboo High School	77.8%	917
Bridges Elementary School	90.8%	500
East Elementary School	82.2%	343
Grand Avenue Elementary School	87.8%	410
Jack Young Middle School	75.8%	599
Lake Delton Elementary School	57.1%	217
Merrimac Community	95.6%	136
North Freedom Elementary School	85.6%	111
Pineview Elementary School	86.4%	382
Prairie Ridge Intermediate School	79%	505
Reedsburg Area High School	84.1%	898
River Valley Early Learning Center	97.3%	109
River Valley Elementary School	90.8%	283
River Valley High School	91.8%	389
River Valley Middle School	93.1%	317
Sauk Prairie High School	84.8%	864
Sauk Prairie Middle School	87.5%	582
Tower Rock Elementary School	72.4%	228
Webb Middle School	83.5%	586
West Elementary-Kindergarten Center	75.8%	62
West Side Elementary School	70.6%	211
Weston Elementary School	95.7%	140
Weston Junior High School	96.8%	31
Weston Senior High School	95.1%	81
Willson Elementary School	82.8%	285
Wisconsin Dells High School	70.7%	603