SW Wisconsin News

There were 3,479 white students enrolled in Vernon County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.3% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Vernon County welcomed 3,739 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 93% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 23 schools in Vernon County, Westby High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 280 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
Coon Valley Elementary School	94.7%	131
De Soto High School	92.1%	127
De Soto Middle School	91%	100
De Soto Virtual School	100%	8
Hillsboro Elementary School	89.1%	230
Hillsboro High School	92.6%	271
Kickapoo Elementary School	96.6%	205
Kickapoo High School	94.7%	265
Kickapoo Valley Forest School	89.4%	47
La Farge Elementary School	89.7%	97
La Farge High School	92.2%	64
La Farge Middle School	95.1%	41
Laurel High School	97.2%	36
Prairie View Elementary School	97.3%	112
Stoddard Elementary School	94.2%	121
Vernon County Area Better Futures High School	100%	12
Viroqua Area Montessori School	90.3%	145
Viroqua Elementary School	92.6%	299
Viroqua High School	92.1%	303
Viroqua Middle School	91.1%	247
Westby Elementary School	94.4%	283
Westby High School	93.3%	300
Westby Middle School	94.2%	295