SW Wisconsin News

There were 1,728 white students enrolled in Crawford County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 0.8% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Crawford County schools welcomed 1,868 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 92.5% 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 2023-24 school year, with a total of 275 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.

These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.

Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
BA Kennedy School	94.2%	243
Bluff View Elementary School	88.6%	184
Bluff View Junior High School	94.2%	206
Mighty River Academy of Virtual Education	83.3%	42
North Crawford Elementary School	90.7%	290
North Crawford High School	88.3%	128
Prairie du Chien High School	92.9%	296
Seneca Elementary School	94.8%	115
Seneca High School	94.9%	98
Seneca Junior High School	98.3%	57
Wauzeka Elementary School	92.9%	98
Wauzeka High School	94.4%	72
Wauzeka Middle School	100%	39