SW Wisconsin News

There were 176 multiracial students enrolled in Grant County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 0.6% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Grant County welcomed 6,949 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 2.5% of the student body, making them the represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the 11 districts in Grant County, Platteville School District recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 80 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Grant County.

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.

District	% of multiracial Students	Total Enrollment
Boscobel Area School District	1.3%	703
Cassville School District	1.2%	172
Cuba City School District	0.9%	677
Fennimore Community School District	1.1%	810
Lancaster Community School District	1.7%	991
Platteville School District	5.1%	1,576
Potosi School District	1.3%	314
River Ridge School District	2.9%	524
Riverdale School District	4.9%	653
Southwestern Wisconsin School District	0.4%	529