Enrollment Analysis: Hispanic students comprised 3.9% 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 12, 2023

There were 273 Hispanic students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 8.8% 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, Hispanic students comprised 3.9% of the student body to be the represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Grant County, Westview Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 32 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 Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Boscobel Elementary School	1.8%	338
Boscobel High School	2.8%	213
Boscobel Junior High School	2.6%	152
Cassville Elementary School	1.1%	89
Cuba City Elementary School	3.9%	260
Cuba City High School	2.2%	273
Cuba City Middle School	4.9%	144
Fennimore Elementary School	5.2%	384
Fennimore High School	2.6%	231
Fennimore Middle School	7.2%	195
Lancaster High School	2.4%	287
Lancaster Middle School	2.2%	232
Neal Wilkins Early Learning Center	5.6%	195
Platteville High School	5.2%	496
Platteville Middle School	5.5%	437
Potosi Elementary School	2.7%	148
Potosi High School	1.9%	107
Potosi Middle School	6.8%	59
River Ridge Elementary School	7.3%	192
River Ridge High School	6.9%	175
River Ridge Middle School	3.8%	157
Riverdale Academy	7.7%	13
Riverdale Elementary School	2.3%	345
Riverdale High School	3.7%	190
Riverdale Junior High School	1%	105
Southwestern Wisconsin Community Middle School	5.7%	106
Southwestern Wisconsin Elementary School	3%	263
Southwestern Wisconsin High School	2.5%	160
Westview Elementary School	7.1%	448
Winskill Elementary School	2.3%	472