Enrollment Analysis: Multiracial students comprised 3.6% of Sauk County's student body in 2022-23 school year

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

By SC Wisconsin News

Nov 15, 2023

There were 369 multiracial students enrolled in Sauk County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.8% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Sauk County welcomed 10,221 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 3.6% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Sauk County, Baraboo High School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 47 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.

Ethnicities in Sauk County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Sauk County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of multiracial students enrollment	Total Enrollment
4K Community-Based	6.6%	61
Al Behrman Elementary School	6.7%	269
BELC--Renewal Head Start	14.3%	14
Baraboo Early Learning Cooperative	9.1%	88
Baraboo High School	5.1%	917
Bridges Elementary School	1.4%	500
East Elementary School	4.7%	343
Grand Avenue Elementary School	2.2%	410
Jack Young Middle School	5.8%	599
Lake Delton Elementary School	2.8%	217
Merrimac Community	1.5%	136
North Freedom Elementary School	4.5%	111
Pineview Elementary School	5.5%	382
Prairie Ridge Intermediate School	4.8%	505
Reedsburg Area High School	3.1%	898
River Valley Early Learning Center	0.9%	109
River Valley Elementary School	2.8%	283
River Valley High School	2.3%	389
River Valley Middle School	1.3%	317
Sauk Prairie High School	1.7%	864
Sauk Prairie Middle School	2.1%	582
Tower Rock Elementary School	2.2%	228
Webb Middle School	3.8%	586
West Elementary-Kindergarten Center	4.8%	62
West Side Elementary School	5.7%	211
Weston Elementary School	2.1%	140
Weston Senior High School	3.7%	81
Willson Elementary School	7%	285
Wisconsin Dells High School	3.3%	603