White students made up 81.8% of Adams County’s student enrollment in 2024-25 coverage area analysis

Adams County schools reported 1,039 white students enrolled for the 2024-25 academic year, marking a 2.1% decline from the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Among the three schools in Adams County, Adams-Friendship Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2024-25 school year, with a total of 400 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.