SW Wisconsin News

There were 136 Black students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.5% more 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, Black students comprised 2% of the student body to be the represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Grant County, Platteville Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 25 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 Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Boscobel Elementary School	1.2%	338
Boscobel High School	0.5%	213
Cuba City Elementary School	0.4%	260
Cuba City High School	1.8%	273
Cuba City Middle School	2.1%	144
Fennimore Middle School	1%	195
Lancaster High School	1.1%	287
Lancaster Middle School	1.3%	232
Neal Wilkins Early Learning Center	8.2%	195
Platteville High School	4%	496
Platteville Middle School	5.7%	437
Potosi Elementary School	2%	148
Potosi High School	0.9%	107
Potosi Middle School	1.7%	59
River Ridge Elementary School	0.5%	192
River Ridge Middle School	1.3%	157
Riverdale Elementary School	2%	345
Riverdale High School	1.1%	190
Riverdale Junior High School	1.9%	105
Southwestern Wisconsin Community Middle School	2.8%	106
Southwestern Wisconsin Elementary School	1.1%	263
Southwestern Wisconsin High School	1.9%	160
Westview Elementary School	4.7%	448
Winskill Elementary School	0.9%	472