SW Wisconsin News

There were 2,238 white students enrolled in Lafayette County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.7% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Lafayette County welcomed 2,703 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 82.8% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 17 schools in Lafayette County, Darlington Elementary/Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 397 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
Argyle Elementary School	88.9%	153
Argyle High School	96%	75
Argyle Middle School	95.4%	65
Belmont Elementary School	83.3%	228
Belmont High School	89.8%	177
Benton Elementary School	90.8%	130
Benton High School	90.8%	65
Benton Middle School	96.6%	29
Black Hawk Elementary School	94.6%	165
Black Hawk High School	95.4%	109
Black Hawk Middle School	98.8%	85
Darlington Elementary/Middle School	64%	620
Darlington High School	70.7%	280
Pecatonica High School	99%	207
Shullsburg Elementary School	85%	133
Shullsburg High School	85.4%	103
Shullsburg Junior High School	87.3%	79