SW Wisconsin News

There were 61 Asian students enrolled in Sauk County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 12.9% 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, Asian students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Sauk County, Jack Young Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian 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.

School name	% of Asian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Al Behrman Elementary School	1.9%	269
Baraboo High School	0.8%	917
Bridges Elementary School	0.2%	500
East Elementary School	0.3%	343
Grand Avenue Elementary School	0.5%	410
Jack Young Middle School	1.3%	599
Lake Delton Elementary School	0.5%	217
Pineview Elementary School	0.3%	382
Prairie Ridge Intermediate School	0.4%	505
Reedsburg Area High School	0.2%	898
River Valley Elementary School	0.4%	283
River Valley High School	1%	389
River Valley Middle School	1%	317
Sauk Prairie High School	0.8%	864
Sauk Prairie Middle School	0.7%	582
Webb Middle School	0.3%	586
West Elementary-Kindergarten Center	1.6%	62
Weston Junior High School	3.2%	31
Willson Elementary School	0.7%	285
Wisconsin Dells High School	1%	603