Fond Du Lac Times

There were 1,502 Hispanic students enrolled in Dodge County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.5% more than 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, Hispanic students comprised 14.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 39 schools in Dodge County, Watertown High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 241 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 Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
BDUSD4Kids	24.7%	178
Beaver Dam High School	21.5%	1,052
Beaver Dam Middle School	21.4%	641
Dodgeland Elementary School	15%	306
Dodgeland High School	11.5%	262
Dodgeland Middle School	13.1%	145
Douglas Elementary School	14.8%	324
Endeavor Charter School	5.8%	52
Honor Elementary School	3.3%	184
Honor Intermediate School	4.2%	120
Horicon Elementary School	13.9%	368
Horicon High School	6.1%	261
Horicon Middle School	9.5%	158
Hustisford High School	5.8%	156
Jefferson Elementary School	32.2%	326
John Hustis Elementary School	3.3%	123
Lebanon Elementary School	4%	50
Lincoln Elementary School	24.7%	194
Lomira Elementary School	10.5%	258
Lomira High School	7.3%	301
Lomira Middle School	11.2%	196
Mayville High School	6.8%	502
Mayville Middle School	9.1%	384
Meadow View Primary School	8.7%	333
Parkview Elementary School	11.4%	35
Prairie View Elementary School	18.5%	351
Randolph Elementary School	9.5%	211
Randolph High School	11.6%	181
Randolph Middle School	8.2%	110
School for Agricultural and Environmental Studies	7.6%	105
Theresa Elementary School	9.1%	198
Washington Elementary School	13.6%	228
Watertown High School	22.2%	1,087
Waupun Area Junior High School	11.5%	297
Waupun Area Senior High School	9.6%	571
Wilson Elementary School	16.1%	81