Fond Du Lac Times

There were 163 Black students enrolled in Dodge County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 7.9% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Dodge County welcomed 10,682 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.5% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 39 schools in Dodge County, Beaver Dam High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 21 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
BDUSD4Kids	1.2%	169
Beaver Dam High School	1.9%	1,112
Beaver Dam Middle School	2.4%	673
Dodgeland Elementary School	1%	316
Dodgeland High School	0.7%	281
Dodgeland Middle School	1.9%	157
Douglas Elementary School	2.3%	310
Honor Elementary School	1.1%	183
Honor Intermediate School	1.5%	135
Horicon Elementary School	3.4%	349
Horicon High School	3.2%	279
Horicon Middle School	4.7%	171
Jefferson Elementary School	1.5%	333
Lebanon Elementary School	1.9%	52
Lincoln Elementary School	5.6%	196
Lomira Elementary School	1.5%	262
Lomira High School	2.5%	323
Lomira Middle School	0.5%	215
Mayville High School	1%	515
Mayville Middle School	1.2%	417
Meadow View Primary School	0.5%	372
Prairie View Elementary School	1.5%	344
Randolph Elementary School	0.9%	220
Randolph Middle School	2%	101
Theresa Elementary School	0.5%	223
Watertown High School	1.6%	1,063
Waupun Area Junior High School	0.7%	299
Waupun Area Senior High School	0.4%	574
Wilson Elementary School	2.6%	114