Fond Du Lac Times

There were 145 Black students enrolled in Dodge County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 6.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Dodge County welcomed 9,840 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.5% of the student body, making them the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the nine districts in Dodge County, Beaver Dam Unified School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 63 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Dodge County.

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.

District	% of Black Students	Total Enrollment
Beaver Dam Unified School District	2%	3,173
Dodgeland School District	1.1%	754
Herman-Neosho-Rubicon School District	1.3%	318
Horicon School District	3.6%	799
Lomira School District	1.4%	1,023
Mayville School District	1%	979
Randolph School District	0.8%	522
Waupun School District	0.7%	1,974