SW Wisconsin News

There were 8,203 white students enrolled in Sauk County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2.7% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Sauk County schools welcomed 10,084 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 81.3% 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 2023-24 school year, with a total of 745 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 white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
4K Community-Based	57.5%	40
Al Behrman Elementary School	72.7%	282
BELC--Renewal Head Start	52.9%	17
Baraboo Early Learning Cooperative	75.9%	108
Baraboo High School	77.4%	935
Bridges Elementary School	88.9%	478
East Elementary School	82.9%	345
Grand Avenue Elementary School	88.6%	428
Jack Young Middle School	74.6%	571
Lake Delton Elementary School	51.4%	218
Merrimac Community	94.4%	126
North Freedom Elementary School	84.3%	108
Pineview Elementary School	83.4%	385
Prairie Ridge Intermediate School	76.2%	512
Reedsburg Area High School	83.8%	889
River Valley Early Learning Center	95.1%	122
River Valley Elementary School	91.4%	267
River Valley High School	92.8%	376
River Valley Middle School	92.6%	311
Sauk Prairie High School	83.3%	873
Sauk Prairie Middle School	86.7%	570
Tower Rock Elementary School	73%	211
Webb Middle School	84.4%	563
West Elementary-Kindergarten Center	70.7%	41
West Side Elementary School	66.2%	207
Weston Elementary School	95.1%	123
Weston Junior High School	97.5%	40
Weston Senior High School	94.2%	69
Willson Elementary School	82.5%	292
Wisconsin Dells High School	67.8%	577