Milwaukee South News

There were 35,150 white students enrolled in Milwaukee County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 4.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Milwaukee County welcomed 118,254 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 29.7% of the student body, making them the second most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the 35 districts in Milwaukee County, Milwaukee School District recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 6,249 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Milwaukee 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 white Students	Total Enrollment
Brown Deer School District	14.4%	1,655
Cudahy School District	51.7%	2,093
Fox Point J2 School District	75%	825
Franklin Public School District	68.6%	4,781
Glendale-River Hills School District	42.9%	962
Greendale School District	69.1%	2,664
Greenfield School District	48.9%	3,493
Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District	67%	442
Milwaukee School District	9.3%	67,500
Nicolet Union High School School District	54.9%	1,089
Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District	64.4%	6,510
Saint Francis School District	49%	1,066
Seeds of Health Inc.	5.8%	1,181
Shorewood School District	64.2%	1,933
South Milwaukee School District	57.6%	2,773
Wauwatosa School District	60.6%	6,935
West Allis-West Milwaukee School District	44.9%	7,095
Whitefish Bay School District	75.5%	2,860
Whitnall School District	69.4%	2,397