Racine Sun

There were 66 American Indian students enrolled in Racine County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 9.6% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Racine County schools welcomed 24,614 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, American Indian students comprised 0.3% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 52 schools in Racine County, Horlick High School and Park High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2023-24 school year, with six 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 American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Bull Early Education Center	0.3%	339
Burlington High School	0.2%	937
Case High School	0.3%	1,845
Fox River Middle School	0.4%	489
Gifford School	0.3%	1,408
Gilmore Fine Arts School	0.3%	725
Horlick High School	0.5%	1,281
Jefferson Lighthouse Elementary School	0.2%	433
Jerstad-Agerholm School	0.2%	865
Julian Thomas Elementary School	0.2%	547
Knapp Elementary School	0.2%	448
Lakeview Elementary School	0.3%	309
Mitchell Middle School	0.1%	1,093
O. Brown Elementary School	0.2%	526
Park High School	0.5%	1,150
Racine Alternative Learning	0.8%	360
Raymond Elementary School	0.5%	410
Red Apple Elementary School	0.4%	289
Schulte Elementary School	0.3%	335
Starbuck - an IB World School	1%	497
The REAL School	0.4%	543
Union Grove Elementary School	0.2%	868
Union Grove High School	0.2%	1,009
Wadewitz Elementary School	0.6%	495
Walden III High School	0.1%	723
Waller Elementary School	0.6%	332
Washington Elementary School	0.5%	197
Waterford High School	0.1%	890
West Ridge Elementary School	0.6%	343
Woodfield Elementary School	0.6%	334