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Trempealeau County Education: 29 Black students were enrolled in schools in 2022-23 school year

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WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

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.

Ethnicities in Trempealeau County in 2022-23 School Year
White [70.4%]Hispanic [25.9%]Ethnicities <5% [3.7%]
Enrollment in Trempealeau County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Black students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Arcadia High School0.5%417
Blair-Taylor Middle/High School0.6%327
Eleva-Strum High School1.1%187
Eleva-Strum Middle School0.7%142
Galesville Elementary School0.4%257
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School0.5%403
Independence Elementary School0.5%193
Independence High School1.4%144
Osseo-Fairchild Elementary School1%390
Osseo-Fairchild High School0.4%257
Osseo-Fairchild Middle School0.6%159
Trempealeau Elementary School1.3%302
Whitehall Memorial Elementary School0.7%435
Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High School0.9%338

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