Burlington Area School District Superintendent Jill Oelslager (2023) | Burlington Area School District
Burlington Area School District Superintendent Jill Oelslager (2023) | Burlington Area School District
Data showed that 2,922 students were enrolled in the Burlington Area School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 1.4% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the district.
Burlington Area School District roughly covers 11 schools within Racine County and has a main office in Burlington.
Among the 11 schools in Burlington Area School District, Burlington High School and Cooper Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 12 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.
| Year | Total District Enrollment | Total Black Students | Black % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 2,922 | 40 | 1.4% |
| 2021-22 | 2,967 | 44 | 1.5% |
| 2020-21 | 3,026 | 36 | 1.2% |
| 2019-20 | 3,125 | 48 | 1.5% |
| 2018-19 | 3,145 | 43 | 1.4% |
| 2017-18 | 3,082 | 39 | 1.3% |
| 2016-17 | 3,103 | 43 | 1.4% |
| 2015-16 | 3,165 | 57 | 1.8% |
| 2014-15 | 3,223 | 61 | 1.9% |
| 2013-14 | 3,163 | 64 | 2% |
| 2012-13 | 3,260 | 73 | 2.2% |
| 2011-12 | 3,324 | 60 | 1.8% |
| 2010-11 | 3,504 | 55 | 1.6% |
| 2009-10 | 3,565 | 56 | 1.6% |
| 2008-09 | 3,614 | 47 | 1.3% |
| 2007-08 | 3,673 | 49 | 1.3% |
| 2006-07 | 3,595 | 49 | 1.4% |
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