Fond Du Lac Times

There were 628 Black students enrolled in Fond du Lac County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Fond du Lac County schools welcomed 12,982 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 4.8% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 43 schools in Fond du Lac County, Fond du Lac High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 161 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
Barlow Park Charter School	1.3%	157
Bessie Allen Middle School	1.2%	323
Campbellsport Elementary School	0.9%	347
Campbellsport High School	0.4%	493
Campbellsport Middle School	0.4%	267
Chegwin Elementary School	12.6%	285
Early Learning Center	1.2%	85
Early Learning in Fond du Lac	10.5%	228
Evans Elementary School	8.9%	282
Fond du Lac High School	8.4%	1,928
Fond du Lac STEM Academy	4.1%	148
Friendship Learning Elementary School	2.1%	628
Horace Mann High School	2%	445
Journey	1.4%	222
Laconia High School	0.6%	327
Murray Park Elementary School	1.3%	152
Oakfield Elementary School	0.4%	246
Oakfield Middle School	1.7%	116
Odyssey Academy of Virtual Learning	2.2%	224
Parkside Elementary School	14.9%	289
Pier Elementary School	22.6%	266
Quest Charter School	0.6%	156
Ripon High School	0.2%	448
Ripon Middle School	0.3%	295
Riverside Elementary School	11%	282
Roberts Elementary School	4.4%	320
Rock River Intermediate School	1.2%	584
Rosendale - Brandon Middle School	1.5%	203
Rosendale Primary School	1.4%	222
Rosenow Elementary School	7.2%	377
Sabish Middle School	11.4%	411
Theisen Middle School	9.3%	465
Waters Elementary School	3.6%	393
Woodworth Middle School	8.2%	377