SW Wisconsin News

There were 41 Asian students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 18% 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, Asian students comprised 0.6% of the student body to be the represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Grant County, Platteville Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 13 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 Asian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Boscobel Elementary School	0.6%	337
Boscobel High School	0.5%	188
Cuba City High School	0.7%	273
Fennimore High School	0.4%	246
Fennimore Middle School	0.5%	196
Lancaster High School	0.3%	308
Neal Wilkins Early Learning Center	1.5%	202
Platteville High School	1.2%	482
Platteville Middle School	3.1%	424
River Ridge High School	0.6%	166
Riverdale Elementary School	0.6%	357
Riverdale High School	0.5%	195
Southwestern Wisconsin High School	0.6%	159
Westview Elementary School	1.4%	436