SW Wisconsin News

There were 354 multiracial students enrolled in Sauk County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 4.1% 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, multiracial students comprised 3.5% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Sauk County, Baraboo High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 50 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 multiracial students enrollment	Total Enrollment
4K Community-Based	12.5%	40
Al Behrman Elementary School	6%	282
BELC--Renewal Head Start	5.9%	17
Baraboo Early Learning Cooperative	5.6%	108
Baraboo High School	5.4%	935
Bridges Elementary School	1.3%	478
East Elementary School	4.1%	345
Grand Avenue Elementary School	1.9%	428
Jack Young Middle School	5.6%	571
Lake Delton Elementary School	5.1%	218
Merrimac Community	2.4%	126
North Freedom Elementary School	5.6%	108
Pineview Elementary School	5.2%	385
Prairie Ridge Intermediate School	5.1%	512
Reedsburg Area High School	3.3%	889
River Valley Early Learning Center	0.8%	122
River Valley Elementary School	3%	267
River Valley High School	2.1%	376
River Valley Middle School	1.9%	311
Sauk Prairie High School	1.5%	873
Sauk Prairie Middle School	2.5%	570
Tower Rock Elementary School	2.8%	211
Webb Middle School	2.3%	563
West Elementary-Kindergarten Center	7.3%	41
West Side Elementary School	3.9%	207
Weston Elementary School	0.8%	123
Weston Junior High School	2.5%	40
Weston Senior High School	4.4%	69
Willson Elementary School	4.8%	292
Wisconsin Dells High School	3.6%	577