Racine Sun

There were 1,585 multiracial students enrolled in Racine County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 1.9% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Racine County welcomed 24,918 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 6.4% of the student body, making them the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the 13 districts in Racine County, Racine Unified School District recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,279 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Racine 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	% of multiracial Students	Total Enrollment
Burlington Area School District	4.1%	2,922
Dover #1 School District	2.3%	86
North Cape School District	0.5%	201
Norway J7 School District	2.5%	80
Racine Unified School District	7.9%	16,182
Raymond #14 School District	3%	428
Union Grove J1 School District	4.6%	902
Union Grove UHS School District	3.1%	1,045
Washington-Caldwell School District	4.1%	194
Waterford Graded J1 School District	2.9%	1,464
Waterford UHS School District	1.5%	954
Yorkville J2 School District	7%	460