Racine
Multiracial Students Tripled in Wisconsin, and They're Still Growing
In 2011, when federal reporting rules first required Wisconsin schools to count students identifying as two or more races, the category barely registered: 13,197 students, 1.5% of enrollment. Fourteen...
Two in Five Wisconsin Districts Hit All-Time Low
Nine of the 10 largest school districts in Wisconsin enrolled fewer students in 2025-26 than in any other year on record. Milwaukee, Green Bay, Kenosha, Racine, Appleton, Waukesha, Eau Claire, Janesvi...
Racine's Recovery Has Stalled at 36.5%
Racine Unified showed promising signs of attendance recovery in 2023 and 2024. After its chronic absenteeism rate spiked to 52.5% in 2022, more than half of all students missing too much school, the r...
Only 28% of Wisconsin Districts Have Recovered from COVID
Not one of Wisconsin's 10 largest school districts has recovered the students it lost during the pandemic. Not Milwaukee, not Madison, not Kenosha. Zero for 10. Statewide, only 116 of 420 districts, 2...
One in Seven Wisconsin Students Is Now Hispanic
In 2006, roughly one in 15 Wisconsin public school students was Hispanic. By 2025, it was one in seven. That shift, from 58,939 students to 116,817, represents a 98.2% increase over 19 years, and it h...
Wisconsin Hits an All-Time Low: 805,881 Students
Every year since 2014-15, Wisconsin's public schools have opened with fewer students than the year before. The streak has now reached 10 observed years with no interruption, no plateau, no sign of a f...