Central Wisconsin News

There were 7,374 white students enrolled in Portage County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Portage County schools welcomed 9,224 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 79.9% 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 2023-24 school year, with a total of 1,139 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.

These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.

Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Almond-Bancroft Elementary School	79%	171
Almond-Bancroft High School	71.3%	108
Almond-Bancroft Middle School	75.7%	74
Amherst Elementary School	94%	351
Amherst High School	93.8%	354
Amherst Middle School	94.1%	270
Bannach Elementary School	82.8%	373
Benjamin Franklin Junior High School	71.4%	812
Charles F. Fernandez Center Alternative Learning	69.6%	69
Grant Elementary School	93.2%	266
Jefferson Elementary School	76.2%	265
Juvenile Detention	87.5%	8
Kennedy Elementary School	86%	171
Madison Elementary School	67.9%	339
McDill Elementary School	78.2%	335
McKinley Center	68.4%	361
P. J. Jacobs Junior High School	77.3%	700
Plover-Whiting Elementary School	70.2%	459
Point 4 the Future	81.9%	425
Point of Discovery School	88.2%	127
Preschool Options	89.2%	37
Roosevelt Elementary School	72.3%	519
Rosholt Elementary School	95.7%	257
Rosholt High School	96.1%	155
Rosholt Middle School	93.4%	61
Stevens Point Area Senior High School	78.1%	1,458
Tomorrow River Community Charter School	86%	178
Tomorrow River Virtual Charter School (TRVCS)	97.9%	47
Washington Elementary School	82.1%	474