Milwaukee City Wire

There were 6,249 white students enrolled in Milwaukee School District during the 2022-23 school year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that 67,500 students were enrolled in the Milwaukee School District during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 9.3% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the district.

Milwaukee School District roughly covers 292 schools within Milwaukee County and has a main office in Milwaukee.

Among the 292 schools in Milwaukee School District, Fernwood Montessori recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 483 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.

Year	Total District Enrollment	Total white Students	white %
2022-23	67,500	6,249	9.3%
2021-22	69,115	6,644	9.6%
2020-21	71,510	7,080	9.9%
2019-20	74,683	7,535	10.1%
2018-19	75,431	7,904	10.5%
2017-18	75,539	8,357	11.1%
2016-17	76,207	8,851	11.6%
2015-16	75,749	9,801	12.9%
2014-15	77,316	10,368	13.4%
2013-14	78,516	10,724	13.7%
2012-13	78,363	10,912	13.9%
2011-12	79,130	11,260	14.2%
2010-11	80,934	12,163	15%
2009-10	82,096	12,470	15.2%
2008-09	85,381	12,930	15.1%
2007-08	86,819	13,512	15.6%
2006-07	89,912	14,344	16%