Enrollment Analysis: Hispanic students comprised 8.2% 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 11, 2023

There were 764 Hispanic students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 4.7% 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, Hispanic students comprised 8.2% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 30 schools in Portage County, Stevens Point Area Senior High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 123 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 Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Almond-Bancroft Elementary School	20.4%	186
Almond-Bancroft High School	25.5%	110
Almond-Bancroft Middle School	25%	80
Amherst Elementary School	2.9%	345
Amherst High School	2.6%	341
Amherst Middle School	2.5%	277
Bannach Elementary School	6.8%	384
Benjamin Franklin Junior High School	9.7%	811
Charles F. Fernandez Center Alternative Learning	7.9%	76
Grant Elementary School	0.4%	258
Jefferson Elementary School	10.3%	271
Juvenile Detention	20%	5
Kennedy Elementary School	7.1%	168
Madison Elementary School	8.2%	356
McDill Elementary School	6.9%	318
McKinley Center	8.3%	372
P. J. Jacobs Junior High School	9.5%	661
Plover-Whiting Elementary School	15.6%	462
Point 4 the Future	7.3%	479
Point of Discovery School	2.8%	142
Preschool Options	2.9%	34
Roosevelt Elementary School	12.5%	521
Rosholt Elementary School	3.7%	246
Rosholt High School	2.4%	166
Rosholt Middle School	3.2%	62
Stevens Point Area Senior High School	8.4%	1,462
Tomorrow River Community Charter School	2.6%	115
Tomorrow River Community Middle (TRCMS)	2.8%	72
Tomorrow River Virtual Charter School (TRVCS)	1.5%	67
Washington Elementary School	7%	469