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Door County Education: 311 Hispanic students were enrolled in schools in 2022-23 school year

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WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

There were 311 Hispanic students enrolled in Door County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Door County welcomed 3,257 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Hispanic students comprised 9.5% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 16 schools in Door County, Sawyer Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 34 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.

Ethnicities in Door County in 2022-23 School Year
White [83.6%]Hispanic [9.5%]Ethnicities <5% [6.9%]
Enrollment in Door County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Hispanic students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Gibraltar Elementary School5.8%257
Gibraltar High School12.8%180
Gibraltar Middle School14.6%110
Sawyer Elementary School13.7%248
Sevastopol Elementary School10%240
Sevastopol High School14.7%177
Sevastopol Middle School12.2%156
Sevastopol Pre-School25%24
Southern Door Elementary School6.5%448
Southern Door High School6.1%327
Southern Door Middle School5.2%211
Sturgeon Bay High School7.9%393
Sunrise Elementary School13.9%201
Walker Middle School12.1%223
Washington Island Elementary School4.7%43

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