Milwaukee South News

There were 39,067 Black students enrolled in Milwaukee County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 10.3% 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, Black students comprised 33% of the student body, making them the most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the 35 districts in Milwaukee County, Milwaukee School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 33,625 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 Black Students	Total Enrollment
Brown Deer School District	54.6%	1,655
Cudahy School District	9.4%	2,093
Fox Point J2 School District	5.5%	825
Franklin Public School District	2.1%	4,781
Glendale-River Hills School District	32.7%	962
Greendale School District	2.1%	2,664
Greenfield School District	5.4%	3,493
Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District	8.8%	442
Milwaukee School District	49.8%	67,500
Nicolet Union High School School District	23%	1,089
Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District	5.1%	6,510
Saint Francis School District	8%	1,066
Seeds of Health Inc.	14.5%	1,181
Shorewood School District	10.9%	1,933
South Milwaukee School District	6.3%	2,773
Wauwatosa School District	18.9%	6,935
West Allis-West Milwaukee School District	11.7%	7,095
Whitefish Bay School District	5.1%	2,860
Whitnall School District	4%	2,397