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

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

By Central Wisconsin News

Nov 24, 2023

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

Enrollment in Portage County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Almond-Bancroft Elementary School	76.9%	186
Almond-Bancroft High School	73.6%	110
Almond-Bancroft Middle School	68.8%	80
Amherst Elementary School	93.9%	345
Amherst High School	94.1%	341
Amherst Middle School	94.6%	277
Bannach Elementary School	82.8%	384
Benjamin Franklin Junior High School	75.3%	811
Charles F. Fernandez Center Alternative Learning	79%	76
Grant Elementary School	94.2%	258
Jefferson Elementary School	74.5%	271
Juvenile Detention	60%	5
Kennedy Elementary School	85.1%	168
Madison Elementary School	72.5%	356
McDill Elementary School	79.9%	318
McKinley Center	67.5%	372
P. J. Jacobs Junior High School	79.1%	661
Plover-Whiting Elementary School	72.3%	462
Point 4 the Future	80.6%	479
Point of Discovery School	88.7%	142
Preschool Options	97.1%	34
Roosevelt Elementary School	70.8%	521
Rosholt Elementary School	95.5%	246
Rosholt High School	95.8%	166
Rosholt Middle School	96.8%	62
Stevens Point Area Senior High School	79.2%	1,462
Tomorrow River Community Charter School	91.3%	115
Tomorrow River Community Middle (TRCMS)	91.7%	72
Tomorrow River Virtual Charter School (TRVCS)	98.5%	67
Washington Elementary School	79.7%	469