Central Wisconsin News

Among the many ethnicities represented in Marathon County schools, white was the most prevalent ethnicity among Marathon County students in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of the 19,039 students attending Marathon County schools, 74% were white. Asian students were the second largest ethnicity, making up 13.4% of Marathon County students.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Marathon County, representing 74.7% of the student body.

Athens Elementary School had the most even distribution of races among the county schools which included 86.2% white students, 9.4% Hispanic students, and 4.4% multiracial students.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in public schools in the county dropped 0.7% compared to the previous year.

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	Most Represented ethnicity	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Athens Elementary School	White	86.2%	159
Athens High School	White	87.9%	124
Athens Middle School	White	93.9%	66
D. C. Everest 4K Community Partnership	White	76.3%	321
D. C. Everest High School	White	72.9%	1,311
D. C. Everest Idea School	White	92.3%	65
D. C. Everest Junior High School	White	73.9%	872
D. C. Everest Middle School	White	69.8%	833
East High School	White	70.1%	902
Edgar Elementary School	White	91.4%	268
Edgar High School	White	94%	201
Edgar Middle School	White	94.8%	135
Enrich Excel Achieve Learning Academy	White	84.8%	59
Everest Virtual Academy	White	73.6%	53
Evergreen Elementary School	White	77.8%	445
Franklin Elementary School	White	48.5%	202
G. D. Jones Elementary School	White	54.7%	539
Grant Elementary School	Asian	40.9%	181
Hatley Elementary School	White	81.3%	123
Hawthorn Hills Elementary School	White	50.9%	232
Hewitt-Texas Elementary School	White	83.7%	98
Horace Mann Middle School	White	68.8%	683
John Marshall Elementary School	White	61.8%	225
John Muir Middle School	White	59.7%	1,006
Lincoln Elementary School	White	33.5%	209
Maine Elementary School	White	80.4%	240
Maple Grove School	White	90%	90
Marathon Elementary School	White	88%	334
Marathon High School	White	92.8%	263
Marathon Venture Academy	White	90.4%	156
Mosinee Elementary School	White	90%	650
Mosinee High School	White	93%	603
Mosinee Middle School	White	93%	687
Mountain Bay Elementary School	White	70.6%	480
Odyssey Elementary School	White	81.9%	72
Rib Mountain Elementary School	White	73.8%	206
Riverside Elementary School	White	83.7%	490
Riverview Elementary School	White	71.9%	480
Rothschild Elementary School	White	73%	403
South Mountain Elementary School	White	79%	233
Spencer Elementary School	White	92.2%	245
Spencer Junior High/High School	White	88.9%	360
Stettin Elementary School	White	73.3%	329
Stratford Elementary School	White	93.2%	340
Stratford High School	White	95.5%	268
Stratford Middle School	White	89.5%	191
Thomas Jefferson Elementary School	White	45.1%	384
Wausau Area Montessori Charter School	White	80.9%	94
Wausau Area Virtual Education	White	72.9%	151
West High School	White	64.6%	1,446
Weston Elementary School	White	52.4%	532