Enrollment Analysis: White students comprised 90.7% of Grant County's student body in 2022-23 school year

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

By SW Wisconsin News

Nov 23, 2023

There were 6,301 white students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Grant County welcomed 6,949 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 90.7% of the student body to be the represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Grant County, Winskill Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 452 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.

Ethnicities in Grant County in 2022-23 School Year

Enrollment in Grant County Schools During 2022-23 School Year

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Boscobel Elementary School	95.9%	338
Boscobel High School	94.8%	213
Boscobel Junior High School	94.7%	152
Cassville Elementary School	97.8%	89
Cassville High School	96.4%	83
Cuba City Elementary School	95%	260
Cuba City High School	94.9%	273
Cuba City Middle School	90.3%	144
Fennimore Elementary School	93.5%	384
Fennimore High School	94.8%	231
Fennimore Middle School	89.2%	195
Lancaster High School	93.7%	287
Lancaster Middle School	94%	232
Neal Wilkins Early Learning Center	76.9%	195
Platteville High School	83.3%	496
Platteville Middle School	81.5%	437
Potosi Elementary School	93.9%	148
Potosi High School	95.3%	107
Potosi Middle School	91.5%	59
River Ridge Elementary School	88.5%	192
River Ridge High School	90.3%	175
River Ridge Middle School	93%	157
Riverdale Academy	92.3%	13
Riverdale Elementary School	91.6%	345
Riverdale High School	89.5%	190
Riverdale Junior High School	89.5%	105
Southwestern Wisconsin Community Middle School	89.6%	106
Southwestern Wisconsin Elementary School	95.4%	263
Southwestern Wisconsin High School	95.6%	160
Westview Elementary School	79.9%	448
Winskill Elementary School	95.8%	472