SW Wisconsin News

There were 971 students enrolled in Prairie du Chien Area School District schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.5% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Of all the students welcomed in the 2023-24 school year, 52.4% of them were boys, and 47.6% were girls.

Data also shows that most of the students were white, accounting for 92.3% of the Prairie du Chien Area School District total enrollment.

Prairie du Chien Area School District covers five schools within Crawford County, with its main office in Prairie du Chien.

Among the five schools in the Prairie du Chien Area School District, Prairie du Chien High School recorded the highest enrollment of 296 students in the 2023-24 school year.

Nearly 830,000 students were enrolled in Wisconsin schools in the 2021-22 school year. This is a 0.85% decrease from the year before. In sharp contrast to declining public school figures, enrollment in charter schools rose 4.5% to more than 52,000.

In 2022, there was roughly one teacher for every 14 students in a Wisconsin classroom, compared to the national average of 1:16. AAA State of Play considered Wisconsin to have the 14th best teacher to student ratio in the U.S.

School	Total Enrollment
Prairie du Chien High School	296
BA Kennedy School	243
Bluff View Junior High School	206
Bluff View Elementary School	184
Mighty River Academy of Virtual Education	42