Central Wisconsin News

There were 164 Black students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.2% more 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, Black students comprised 1.8% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 30 schools in Portage County, Stevens Point Area Senior High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 26 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.

School name	% of Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Almond-Bancroft Middle School	2.5%	80
Amherst Elementary School	0.6%	345
Amherst High School	2.1%	341
Bannach Elementary School	1.8%	384
Benjamin Franklin Junior High School	2.3%	811
Charles F. Fernandez Center Alternative Learning	4%	76
Grant Elementary School	0.4%	258
Jefferson Elementary School	3.3%	271
Kennedy Elementary School	0.6%	168
Madison Elementary School	4.2%	356
McDill Elementary School	0.3%	318
McKinley Center	3%	372
P. J. Jacobs Junior High School	2%	661
Plover-Whiting Elementary School	1.1%	462
Point 4 the Future	2.1%	479
Roosevelt Elementary School	1.9%	521
Rosholt High School	0.6%	166
Stevens Point Area Senior High School	1.8%	1,462
Washington Elementary School	4.5%	469