SW Wisconsin News

There were 117 multiracial students enrolled in Vernon County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.5% more 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, multiracial students comprised 3.1% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 23 schools in Vernon County, Viroqua Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 14 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 multiracial students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Coon Valley Elementary School	2.3%	131
De Soto High School	3.2%	127
De Soto Middle School	6%	100
Hillsboro Elementary School	3.9%	230
Hillsboro High School	2.6%	271
Kickapoo Elementary School	1.5%	205
Kickapoo High School	3.4%	265
Kickapoo Valley Forest School	4.3%	47
La Farge Elementary School	6.2%	97
La Farge High School	3.1%	64
Prairie View Elementary School	0.9%	112
Stoddard Elementary School	3.3%	121
Viroqua Area Montessori School	1.4%	145
Viroqua Elementary School	4%	299
Viroqua High School	3%	303
Viroqua Middle School	5.7%	247
Westby Elementary School	2.1%	283
Westby High School	3.3%	300
Westby Middle School	2.7%	295