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There were 1,541 Hispanic students enrolled in Trempealeau County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 6.5% more 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, Hispanic students comprised 25.9% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 21 schools in Trempealeau County, Arcadia Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 448 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 Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Arcadia Elementary School	84.7%	529
Arcadia High School	65.2%	417
Arcadia Middle School	79.2%	337
Blair-Taylor Elementary School	7.2%	305
Blair-Taylor Middle/High School	6.4%	327
Eleva-Strum Elementary School	8%	338
Eleva-Strum High School	9.1%	187
Eleva-Strum Middle School	9.9%	142
Ettrick Elementary School	1.6%	123
Galesville Elementary School	3.5%	257
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School	4.7%	403
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau Middle School	4.7%	279
Independence Elementary School	59.6%	193
Independence High School	43.1%	144
Independence Middle School	44.2%	95
Osseo-Fairchild Elementary School	3.3%	390
Osseo-Fairchild High School	3.5%	257
Osseo-Fairchild Middle School	4.4%	159
Trempealeau Elementary School	3.3%	302
Whitehall Memorial Elementary School	22.8%	435
Whitehall Memorial Junior/Senior High School	15.7%	338