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Enrollment Analysis: White students comprised 80.8% of Portage County's student body in 2022-23 school year

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

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

There were 7,523 white students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.6% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Portage County welcomed 9,316 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 80.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 30 schools in Portage County, Stevens Point Area Senior High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,158 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 Portage County in 2022-23 School Year
White [80.8%]Hispanic [8.2%]Ethnicities <5% [5.9%]Asian [5.1%]
Enrollment in Portage County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of white students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Almond-Bancroft Elementary School76.9%186
Almond-Bancroft High School73.6%110
Almond-Bancroft Middle School68.8%80
Amherst Elementary School93.9%345
Amherst High School94.1%341
Amherst Middle School94.6%277
Bannach Elementary School82.8%384
Benjamin Franklin Junior High School75.3%811
Charles F. Fernandez Center Alternative Learning79%76
Grant Elementary School94.2%258
Jefferson Elementary School74.5%271
Juvenile Detention60%5
Kennedy Elementary School85.1%168
Madison Elementary School72.5%356
McDill Elementary School79.9%318
McKinley Center67.5%372
P. J. Jacobs Junior High School79.1%661
Plover-Whiting Elementary School72.3%462
Point 4 the Future80.6%479
Point of Discovery School88.7%142
Preschool Options97.1%34
Roosevelt Elementary School70.8%521
Rosholt Elementary School95.5%246
Rosholt High School95.8%166
Rosholt Middle School96.8%62
Stevens Point Area Senior High School79.2%1,462
Tomorrow River Community Charter School91.3%115
Tomorrow River Community Middle (TRCMS)91.7%72
Tomorrow River Virtual Charter School (TRVCS)98.5%67
Washington Elementary School79.7%469

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