SW Wisconsin News

There were 50 Asian students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 19.4% 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, Asian students comprised 0.7% of the student body to be the represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Grant County, Platteville High School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 15 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 Asian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Boscobel High School	0.9%	213
Boscobel Junior High School	0.7%	152
Cuba City High School	0.4%	273
Cuba City Middle School	0.7%	144
Fennimore High School	0.4%	231
Fennimore Middle School	1%	195
Lancaster Middle School	0.4%	232
Neal Wilkins Early Learning Center	3.1%	195
Platteville High School	3%	496
Platteville Middle School	3.2%	437
Southwestern Wisconsin Community Middle School	0.9%	106
Westview Elementary School	1.1%	448