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Enrollment Analysis: Hispanic students comprised 6.8% of Grant County's student body in 2023-24 school year

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Jill Underly Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction | Wikipedia

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There were 467 Hispanic students enrolled in Grant County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 71.1% more 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, Hispanic students comprised 6.8% of the student body to be the represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 32 schools in Grant County, Winskill Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 80 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.

Ethnicities in Grant County in 2023-24 School Year
White [88.2%]Hispanic [6.8%]Ethnicities <5% [5%]
Enrollment in Grant County Schools During 2023-24 School Year
School name% of Hispanic students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Boscobel Elementary School2.1%337
Boscobel High School3.2%188
Boscobel Junior High School5.4%147
Cuba City Elementary School6.3%272
Cuba City High School4%273
Cuba City Middle School5.4%130
Fennimore Elementary School5.8%394
Fennimore High School3.3%246
Fennimore Middle School5.1%196
Lancaster High School15.6%308
Lancaster Middle School20.4%235
Neal Wilkins Early Learning Center9.4%202
Platteville High School7.5%482
Platteville Middle School5.7%424
Potosi Elementary School1.8%165
Potosi High School2.8%109
Potosi Middle School7.6%53
River Ridge Elementary School7.6%198
River Ridge High School4.2%166
River Ridge Middle School2.8%141
Riverdale Elementary School2.8%357
Riverdale High School3.6%195
Riverdale Junior High School2.1%96
Southwestern Wisconsin Community Middle School3.2%95
Southwestern Wisconsin Elementary School3.8%263
Southwestern Wisconsin High School3.8%159
Westview Elementary School9.4%436
Winskill Elementary School17.5%456

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