Madison Reporter

There were 25 Black students enrolled in Mount Horeb Area School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 2,387 students were enrolled in the Mount Horeb Area School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the district.

Mount Horeb Area School District roughly covers six schools within Dane County and has a main office in Mount Horeb.

Among the six schools in Mount Horeb Area School District, Mount Horeb High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 12 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.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total Black Students	Black %
2022-23	2,387	25	1.1%
2021-22	2,384	27	1.1%
2020-21	2,423	31	1.3%
2019-20	2,520	35	1.4%
2018-19	2,522	32	1.3%
2017-18	2,532	31	1.2%
2016-17	2,503	24	1%
2015-16	2,520	28	1.1%
2014-15	2,538	25	1%
2013-14	2,376	19	0.8%
2012-13	2,370	18	0.8%
2011-12	2,352	28	1.2%
2010-11	2,337	29	1.2%
2009-10	2,358	37	1.6%
2008-09	2,328	34	1.5%
2007-08	2,262	22	1%