Madison Reporter

There were 11,827 Hispanic students enrolled in Dane County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 4.1% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Dane County schools welcomed 77,279 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 15.3% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 171 schools in Dane County, LaFollette High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 531 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.

School name	% of Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
4K McFarland	3.3%	120
4K PK Off Site	22.7%	594
Allis Elementary School	37.8%	357
Arboretum Elementary School	4.5%	427
Badger Ridge Middle School	25.7%	752
Badger Rock Middle School	36.4%	99
Belleville Elementary School	9.4%	533
Belleville High School	7.5%	294
Belleville Middle School	9.4%	128
Black Earth Elementary School	3.9%	389
Black Hawk Middle School	18.9%	376
C. H. Bird Elementary School	7%	328
Cambridge Elementary School	3.6%	419
Capital High School	18.7%	123
Central Heights Middle School	12.9%	498
Cesar Chavez Elementary School	27.2%	652
Cherokee Heights Middle School	41.9%	537
Clark Street Community School	6.8%	103
Conrad Elvehjem Primary School	5.5%	473
Core Knowledge Charter School	6.9%	419
Cottage Grove Elementary School	6.9%	305
Country View Elementary School	14.7%	374
Creekside Elementary School	11.1%	362
Crestwood Elementary School	15.7%	287
De Forest High School	7%	1,118
De Forest Middle School	7.8%	568
Deerfield Elementary School	6.7%	431
Deerfield High School	8.1%	209
Deerfield Middle School	7.6%	106
Destinations Career Academy of Wisconsin High	12.4%	340
Dr. Virginia Henderson Elementary School	35.6%	463
Eagle Point Elementary School	5%	363
Early Childhood	47.4%	19
East High School	25.6%	1,644
Eastside Elementary School	8.4%	417
Elm Lawn Elementary School	8.3%	336
Elvehjem Elementary School	13.9%	403
Emerson Elementary School	14.5%	317
Forest Edge Elementary School	8%	401
Fox Prairie Elementary School	7.8%	435
Franklin Elementary School	12.7%	292
Glacial Drumlin School	8.3%	763
Glacier Creek Middle School	7.4%	948
Glacier Edge Elementary School	37.9%	462
Gompers Elementary School	15%	220
Granite Ridge School	6.9%	477
Hamilton Middle School	10.4%	768
Harvest Intermediate School	7.1%	950
Hawthorne Elementary School	30.8%	321
Holum Education Center	7.1%	295
Horizon Elementary School	10.4%	357
Huegel Elementary School	17.8%	422
Indian Mound Middle School	6.4%	545
Innovative & Alternative High School	28.1%	139
Insight School of Wisconsin High	20%	150
James Wright Middle School	47.9%	259
Jefferson Middle School	35.1%	436
Kegonsa Elementary School	5.3%	303
Kennedy Elementary School	10.9%	579
Kromrey Middle School	12.5%	1,185
LaFollette High School	34.8%	1,527
Lake View Elementary School	25.4%	287
Lapham Elementary School	7.1%	211
Leopold Elementary School	45.6%	623
Lincoln Elementary School	34.3%	385
Lindbergh Elementary School	17.1%	170
Lowell Elementary School	10.5%	335
Marquette Elementary School	7.6%	159
Marshall Early Learning Center	18.9%	227
Marshall Elementary School	22.9%	249
Marshall High School	20.8%	284
Marshall Middle School	29.1%	117
McFarland High School	4.1%	740
Meadow View Elementary School	11.5%	417
Memorial High School	23.6%	2,005
Mendota Elementary School	12.9%	280
Metro School	13%	23
Middleton High School	11.3%	2,237
Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District 4K	9.1%	252
Midvale Elementary School	33.1%	372
Milele Chikasa Anana Elementary School	28.9%	454
Monona Grove High School	7.6%	1,144
Monona Grove Liberal Arts	11.6%	86
Mount Horeb Area Community 4K	4.9%	142
Mount Horeb Early Learning Center	6.3%	143
Mount Horeb High School	5%	776
Mount Horeb Intermediate School	5.7%	512
Mount Horeb Middle School	4.1%	510
Mount Horeb Primary Center	5.2%	308
Muir Elementary School	10.5%	418
Netherwood Knoll Elementary School	3.4%	407
New Century School	4.8%	124
Nikolay Middle School	3.5%	201
Northside Elementary School	9.5%	316
Northside Elementary School	18.6%	316
Nuestro Mundo	64.8%	295
O'Keeffe Middle School	13.7%	439
Olson Elementary School	7.3%	452
Orchard Ridge Elementary School	16.6%	247
Oregon 4K	7.1%	225
Oregon High School	8.6%	1,284
Oregon Middle School	8.8%	639
Park Elementary School	5.6%	250
Patrick Marsh Middle School	11.2%	572
Pope Farm Elementary School	3%	403
Prairie Phoenix Academy	14.3%	84
Prairie View Elementary School	11.4%	326
Prairie View Middle School	14%	651
Randall Elementary School	7.9%	316
River Bluff Middle School	8.4%	572
Rome Corners Intermediate School	6.6%	483
Royal Oaks Elementary School	8.1%	422
SASD 4K	8.1%	185
Sandburg Elementary School	48.9%	411
Sandhill Elementary School	6.8%	410
Sauk Trail Elementary School	26%	393
Savanna Oaks Middle School	16.8%	380
Schenk Elementary School	29.5%	444
Sennett Middle School	39.7%	579
Shabazz-City High School	17.5%	114
Sherman Middle School	32%	385
Shorewood Hills Elementary School	12%	382
Spring Harbor Middle School	12.6%	270
Stephens Elementary School	28.2%	482
Stoner Prairie Elementary School	16.9%	385
Stoughton High School	7.1%	864
Sugar Creek Elementary School	24.7%	683
Sun Prairie Four Kids	8.3%	301
Sun Prairie High School	11.5%	1,275
Sun Prairie West High School	11.1%	1,333
Sunset Ridge Elementary School	8.7%	298
Taylor Prairie Elementary School	9.7%	279
Thoreau Elementary School	26.9%	398
Token Springs Elementary School	4%	456
Toki Middle School	20.6%	538
Van Hise Elementary School	10.2%	421
Verona Area High School	25.1%	1,789
Verona Area International School	9.3%	118
Verona Area K4	13.8%	289
Waubesa Intermediate School	5.1%	512
Waunakee Community 4K School	6.8%	237
Waunakee Heritage Elementary School	12.7%	575
Waunakee High School	7.1%	1,346
Waunakee Intermediate School	7.4%	620
Waunakee Middle School	8.1%	681
Waunakee Prairie Elementary School	6.1%	524
West High School	23%	2,137
West Middleton Elementary School	6.2%	338
Westside Elementary School	19.2%	443
Whitehorse Middle School	25.3%	400
Windsor Elementary School	6.3%	512
Winnequah School	9.8%	642
Wisconsin Heights High School	2.3%	219
Wisconsin Heights Middle School	1.2%	164
Wisconsin Virtual Academy High (WIVA)	15.1%	1,423
Wisconsin Virtual Academy K-8 (WIVA)	18.8%	1,336
Yahara Elementary School	10.4%	347