How many American Indian students were enrolled in Dane County schools in 2022-23 school year?

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

By Madison Reporter

Oct 29, 2023

There were 225 American Indian students enrolled in Dane County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 16% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Dane County welcomed 77,064 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.3% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 171 schools in Dane County, Wisconsin Virtual Academy K-8 (WIVA) recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 27 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 Dane County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Dane County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Black Earth Elementary School	0.3%	376
Black Hawk Middle School	0.3%	357
C. H. Bird Elementary School	0.3%	340
Cambridge Elementary School	0.5%	430
Central Heights Middle School	0.6%	472
Cesar Chavez Elementary School	0.3%	607
Clark Street Community School	1%	100
Creekside Elementary School	0.3%	339
Crestwood Elementary School	0.4%	272
De Forest High School	0.2%	1,099
Deerfield High School	1.4%	217
Deerfield Middle School	0.9%	114
Destinations Career Academy of Wisconsin High	0.9%	232
Dr. Virginia Henderson Elementary School	1%	479
East High School	0.2%	1,649
Eastside Elementary School	0.7%	425
Elvehjem Elementary School	1.2%	418
Emerson Elementary School	0.9%	351
Glacial Drumlin School	0.3%	768
Glacier Creek Middle School	0.3%	935
Glacier Edge Elementary School	0.2%	477
Gompers Elementary School	0.9%	227
Granite Ridge School	0.4%	464
Hamilton Middle School	0.1%	725
Harvest Intermediate School	0.2%	914
Hawthorne Elementary School	1.3%	307
Horizon Elementary School	0.6%	364
Indian Mound Middle School	0.4%	531
Innovative & Alternative High School	0.8%	132
Insight School of Wisconsin High	1.2%	173
Jefferson Middle School	0.2%	415
Kegonsa Elementary School	0.3%	302
Kennedy Elementary School	0.4%	524
Kromrey Middle School	0.3%	1,191
LaFollette High School	0.5%	1,482
Lake View Elementary School	0.4%	267
Lincoln Elementary School	0.5%	374
Lowell Elementary School	0.3%	334
Marshall Elementary School	0.4%	230
Marshall High School	0.7%	289
Meadow View Elementary School	1.9%	362
Memorial High School	0.1%	2,025
Mendota Elementary School	0.7%	308
Metro School	5.3%	19
Middleton High School	0.3%	2,309
Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District 4K	1.1%	278
Midvale Elementary School	0.3%	373
Milele Chikasa Anana Elementary School	0.5%	430
Monona Grove High School	0.5%	1,083
Mount Horeb Primary Center	0.3%	312
Muir Elementary School	0.7%	403
Netherwood Knoll Elementary School	1%	398
Nuestro Mundo	0.7%	284
O'Keeffe Middle School	0.4%	452
Olson Elementary School	0.5%	442
Oregon 4K	0.4%	225
Park Elementary School	0.4%	252
Patrick Marsh Middle School	0.3%	594
Pope Farm Elementary School	1%	410
Prairie View Middle School	0.3%	666
River Bluff Middle School	0.2%	582
Rome Corners Intermediate School	0.2%	493
Royal Oaks Elementary School	0.2%	449
SASD 4K	0.5%	187
Sauk Trail Elementary School	0.7%	407
Sennett Middle School	0.2%	623
Sherman Middle School	0.5%	401
Shorewood Hills Elementary School	0.5%	381
Spring Harbor Middle School	0.8%	263
Stephens Elementary School	0.2%	493
Stoner Prairie Elementary School	0.3%	381
Stoughton High School	0.1%	875
Sun Prairie Four Kids	0.7%	443
Sun Prairie High School	0.3%	1,274
Sun Prairie West High School	0.5%	1,294
Sunset Ridge Elementary School	0.3%	317
Verona Area High School	0.2%	1,802
Waubesa Intermediate School	0.2%	540
Waunakee Community 4K School	0.4%	249
West High School	0.2%	2,147
West Middleton Elementary School	0.3%	364
Westside Elementary School	0.5%	413
Whitehorse Middle School	0.2%	452
Windsor Elementary School	0.2%	530
Winnequah School	0.2%	609
Wisconsin Virtual Academy High (WIVA)	0.9%	1,270
Wisconsin Virtual Academy K-8 (WIVA)	2%	1,365