SW Wisconsin News

There were 33 Black students enrolled in Iowa County schools in the 2022-23 school year, the same number as the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Iowa County welcomed 3,424 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Iowa County, Dodgeville High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of nine 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 Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Barneveld Elementary School	1%	206
Barneveld High School	0.8%	128
Dodgeville High School	2.4%	374
Dodgeville Middle School	1.6%	311
Highland Community Elementary School	0.8%	132
Highland Community High School	1%	105
Iowa-Grant Elementary/Middle School	1.3%	473
Iowa-Grant High School	0.5%	203
Mineral Point Elementary School	0.9%	354
Mineral Point High School	0.8%	245
Mineral Point Middle School	0.6%	178
Pecatonica Elementary School	0.5%	184