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There were 29 Black students enrolled in Trempealeau County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 9.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Trempealeau County welcomed 5,957 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 0.5% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 21 schools in Trempealeau County, Osseo-Fairchild Elementary School and Trempealeau Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of four 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 Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Arcadia High School	0.5%	417
Blair-Taylor Middle/High School	0.6%	327
Eleva-Strum High School	1.1%	187
Eleva-Strum Middle School	0.7%	142
Galesville Elementary School	0.4%	257
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School	0.5%	403
Independence Elementary School	0.5%	193
Independence High School	1.4%	144
Osseo-Fairchild Elementary School	1%	390
Osseo-Fairchild High School	0.4%	257
Osseo-Fairchild Middle School	0.6%	159
Trempealeau Elementary School	1.3%	302
Whitehall Memorial Elementary School	0.7%	435
Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High School	0.9%	338