Central Wisconsin News

The majority of students in Portage County districts were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of the 9,093 students attending Portage County district schools, 80.4% were white. Hispanic students were the second largest ethnic group among Portage County's districts, making up 8.4% of the student body.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Portage County districts, representing 80.8% of the student body.

Stevens Point Area Public School District and Tomorrow River School District had the most diverse student body in the county, which included American Indian, Asian, African American, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, multiracial, and white.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in school districts in the county increased less than 0.1% compared to the previous year.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Portage County.

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.

District	Most Prevalent	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Almond-Bancroft School District	White	74.2	376
Rosholt School District	White	95.8	475
Stevens Point Area Public School District	White	77.3	7,025
Tomorrow River School District	White	94	1,217