SW Wisconsin News

There were 63 multiracial students enrolled in Crawford County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 4.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Crawford County welcomed 1,898 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 3.3% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Crawford County, Bluff View Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 12 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 multiracial students enrollment	Total Enrollment
BA Kennedy School	4.5%	222
Bluff View Elementary School	5.6%	216
Bluff View Junior High School	2.6%	196
Mighty River Academy of Virtual Education	6.7%	30
North Crawford Elementary School	3.3%	276
North Crawford High School	2.4%	124
Prairie du Chien High School	1.9%	322
Seneca Elementary School	4%	100
Seneca High School	3.8%	105
Seneca Junior High School	2%	50
Wauzeka Elementary School	3.4%	118
Wauzeka High School	1.3%	78
Wauzeka Middle School	3.3%	61