SW Wisconsin News

There were 6,087 white students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 3.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Grant County schools welcomed 6,904 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 88.2% of the student body to be the represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Grant County, Platteville High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 403 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
Boscobel Elementary School	94.1%	337
Boscobel High School	95.2%	188
Boscobel Junior High School	92.5%	147
Cassville Elementary School	98.9%	87
Cassville High School	97.6%	82
Cuba City Elementary School	90.1%	272
Cuba City High School	93.8%	273
Cuba City Middle School	90%	130
Fennimore Elementary School	92.6%	394
Fennimore High School	93.5%	246
Fennimore Middle School	91.8%	196
Lancaster High School	79.6%	308
Lancaster Middle School	77.9%	235
Neal Wilkins Early Learning Center	77.7%	202
Platteville High School	83.6%	482
Platteville Middle School	81.1%	424
Potosi Elementary School	97%	165
Potosi High School	96.3%	109
Potosi Middle School	92.5%	53
River Ridge Elementary School	88.4%	198
River Ridge High School	93.4%	166
River Ridge Middle School	92.9%	141
Riverdale Academy	100%	12
Riverdale Elementary School	90.5%	357
Riverdale High School	87.7%	195
Riverdale Junior High School	92.7%	96
Southwestern Wisconsin Community Middle School	92.6%	95
Southwestern Wisconsin Elementary School	95.4%	263
Southwestern Wisconsin High School	93.1%	159
Westview Elementary School	77.1%	436
Winskill Elementary School	81.4%	456