Fond Du Lac Times

There were 163 Black students enrolled in Dodge County schools in the 2023-24 school year, the same number as the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Dodge County schools welcomed 10,329 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.6% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 39 schools in Dodge County, Watertown High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 23 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 Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
BDUSD4Kids	1.1%	178
Beaver Dam High School	1.8%	1,052
Beaver Dam Middle School	1.9%	641
Dodgeland Elementary School	1%	306
Dodgeland High School	2.3%	262
Dodgeland Middle School	4.1%	145
Douglas Elementary School	3.7%	324
Honor Elementary School	1.1%	184
Honor Intermediate School	0.8%	120
Horicon Elementary School	3.3%	368
Horicon High School	3.1%	261
Horicon Middle School	5.1%	158
Jefferson Elementary School	2.2%	326
Lebanon Elementary School	2%	50
Lincoln Elementary School	3.1%	194
Lomira Elementary School	0.8%	258
Lomira High School	1.7%	301
Lomira Middle School	1%	196
Mayville High School	1%	502
Mayville Middle School	0.8%	384
Meadow View Primary School	0.3%	333
Prairie View Elementary School	0.9%	351
Randolph Elementary School	1%	211
Randolph High School	0.6%	181
Randolph Middle School	0.9%	110
Theresa Elementary School	0.5%	198
Washington Elementary School	0.9%	228
Watertown High School	2.1%	1,087
Waupun Area Junior High School	0.7%	297
Waupun Area Senior High School	0.9%	571