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| ==About the district==
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| [[File:Rock County Wisconsin.png|200px|thumb|left|link=Beloit School District, Wisconsin|The Beloit School District is located in Rock County, Wis.]]
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| The Beloit School District is located in [[Rock County, Wisconsin|Rock County]] in southern [[Wisconsin]]. The county seat is [[Janesville, Wisconsin|Janesville]]. Rock County was home to 161,188 residents in 2014, according to the United States Census Bureau.<ref name=Census>[http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/55/55105.html ''United States Census Bureau,'' "Rock County, Wisconsin," accessed November 16, 2015]</ref>
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| ===Demographics===
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| ====Higher education achievement====
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| Rock County underperformed in comparison to the rest of Wisconsin in terms of higher education achievement from 2009 to 2013. The United States Census Bureau found that 19.4 percent of county residents aged 25 years and older had attained a bachelor's degree compared to 26.8 percent for the state as a whole.<ref name=Census/>
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| ====Median household income====
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| Between 2009 and 2013, the median household income in Rock County was $49,435. At the same time, the median household income for Wisconsin as a whole was $52,413, and for the entire United States it was $53,046.<ref name=Census/><ref name=usaquickfacts>[http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html ''United States Census Bureau'', "State & County QuickFacts: USA," accessed July 6, 2015]</ref>
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| ====Poverty rate====
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| The poverty rate in Rock County was 14.3 percent from 2009 to 2013, while it was 13.0 percent statewide.<ref name=Census/> During that same time period, the poverty rate for the country as a whole was 15.4 percent.<ref name=usaquickfacts/>
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| ! colspan="3" style="background-color:#00008B; color: white;" |'' Racial Demographics, 2014<ref name=Census/>
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| ! style="background-color:#00008B; color: white;" | Rock County (%)
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| | White || 91.9 || 87.8
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| | Black or African American || 5.1 || 6.6
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| | American Indian and Alaska Native || 0.5 || 1.1
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| | Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander || 0.1 || 0.0
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| | Two or More Races || 2.2 || 1.8
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| | Hispanic or Latino || 8.2 || 6.5
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| ! colspan="3" style="background-color:#00008B; color: white;" |'' Presidential voting pattern,<br>Rock County, 2000-2012<ref>[http://gab.wi.gov/elections-voting/results?page=0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C0%2C2 ''Government Accountability Board,'' "Wisconsin Election Results," accessed January 28, 2014]</ref>
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| | 2012 || 60.9 || 37.8
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| | 2008 || 63.8 || 34.5
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| | 2004 || 58.3 || 41.1
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| | 2000 || 57.4 || 39.0
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| ==Recent news== | | ==Recent news== |
Nora Gard Incumbent
