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There were 6,877 white students enrolled in Pierce County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.9% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Pierce County welcomed 7,624 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 90.2% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 25 schools in Pierce County, River Falls High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 976 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.

School name	% of white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Ellsworth Elementary School	90.3%	730
Ellsworth High School	93.5%	519
Ellsworth Middle School	90.4%	375
Elmwood Elementary School	95.7%	138
Elmwood High School	91.1%	90
Elmwood Middle School	97.6%	83
Greenwood Elementary School	88%	392
Malone Elementary School	92.6%	460
Meyer Middle School	87.3%	738
Plum City Elementary School	85.4%	103
Plum City High School	83.9%	137
Prescott 4K	97.4%	78
Prescott High School	91.4%	430
Prescott Middle School	92.4%	275
Renaissance Charter Academy	86.3%	51
River Falls 4 Children	92.5%	160
River Falls High School	87.8%	1,112
River Falls Public Montessori Academy	85.8%	190
River Falls eSchool	88.9%	9
Rocky Branch Elementary School	86%	428
Spring Valley Elementary School	97.7%	354
Spring Valley High School	95.5%	200
Spring Valley Middle School	94.2%	154
Western Wisconsin Virtual Charter School (WWVC)	80%	10
Westside Elementary School	88.5%	408