Madison Reporter

There were 11,372 Hispanic students enrolled in Dane County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 4.5% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Dane County welcomed 76,842 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 14.8% of the student body, making them the second most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the 21 districts in Dane County, Madison Metropolitan School District recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 6,077 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Dane County.

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.

District	% of Hispanic Students	Total Enrollment
Belleville School District	8.6%	911
De Forest Area School District	6.9%	4,147
Deerfield Community School District	6%	751
Madison Metropolitan School District	24.1%	25,237
Marshall School District	20.4%	918
McFarland School District	11.6%	5,484
Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District	9.6%	7,263
Monona Grove School District	7.4%	3,539
Mount Horeb Area School District	4.6%	2,387
Oregon School District	7.3%	4,114
Stoughton Area School District	7.4%	2,757
Sun Prairie Area School District	11.1%	8,350
Verona Area School District	21.1%	5,827
Waunakee Community School District	7.2%	4,408
Wisconsin Heights School District	2.3%	749