Ozaukee County News

There were 403 Black students enrolled in Ozaukee County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.3% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Ozaukee County welcomed 12,405 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 3.2% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 27 schools in Ozaukee County, Homestead High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 106 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.

School name	% of Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Cedarburg High School	1.9%	1,089
Donges Bay Elementary School	5.4%	501
Dunwiddie Elementary School	4.6%	351
Grafton High School	3.1%	715
Homestead High School	8.4%	1,265
John Long Middle School	2.7%	443
Kennedy Elementary School	2.1%	483
Lake Shore Middle School	6.7%	327
Lincoln Elementary School	2%	302
Oriole Lane Elementary School	2.5%	511
Ozaukee Elementary School	0.6%	336
Ozaukee High School	1.6%	187
Ozaukee Middle School	1.4%	146
Parkview Elementary School	0.4%	504
Port Washington High School	2.8%	814
Saukville Elementary School	3%	335
Steffen Middle School	3.3%	395
Thomas Jefferson Middle School	2.7%	717
Thorson Elementary School	0.6%	548
Webster Middle School	1.6%	645
Westlawn Elementary School	0.3%	293
Wilson Elementary School	4.3%	563
Wisconsin Virtual Learning	7.1%	351
Woodview Elementary School	2.3%	475