SW Wisconsin News

There were 1,742 white students enrolled in Crawford County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 1.6% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Crawford County welcomed 1,898 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 Crawford County, Prairie du Chien High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 297 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
BA Kennedy School	91%	222
Bluff View Elementary School	90.3%	216
Bluff View Junior High School	91.8%	196
Mighty River Academy of Virtual Education	90%	30
North Crawford Elementary School	90.2%	276
North Crawford High School	90.3%	124
Prairie du Chien High School	92.2%	322
Seneca Elementary School	96%	100
Seneca High School	93.3%	105
Seneca Junior High School	96%	50
Wauzeka Elementary School	90.7%	118
Wauzeka High School	93.6%	78
Wauzeka Middle School	95.1%	61