SW Wisconsin News

There were 3,142 white students enrolled in Iowa County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 4.1% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Iowa County welcomed 3,424 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 91.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 15 schools in Iowa County, Iowa-Grant Elementary/Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 432 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 white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Barneveld Elementary School	94.2%	206
Barneveld High School	96.9%	128
Barneveld Middle School	94.9%	97
Dodgeville Elementary School	89%	383
Dodgeville High School	89.3%	374
Dodgeville Middle School	89.4%	311
Highland Community Elementary School	88.6%	132
Highland Community High School	88.6%	105
Highland Community Middle School	92.2%	51
Iowa-Grant Elementary/Middle School	91.3%	473
Iowa-Grant High School	89.7%	203
Mineral Point Elementary School	94.6%	354
Mineral Point High School	93.9%	245
Mineral Point Middle School	91.6%	178
Pecatonica Elementary School	97.8%	184