Fond Du Lac Times

There were 630 Black students enrolled in Fond du Lac County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 1.8% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Fond du Lac County welcomed 12,688 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 5% of the student body, making them the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the six districts in Fond du Lac County, Fond du Lac School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 574 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Fond du Lac 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
Campbellsport School District	0.5%	1,338
Fond du Lac School District	8.7%	6,603
North Fond du Lac School District	1.5%	1,567
Oakfield School District	0.8%	527
Ripon Area School District	1%	1,694
Rosendale-Brandon School District	0.6%	959