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There were 408 Black students enrolled in La Crosse County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that La Crosse County welcomed 15,378 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Black students comprised 2.7% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 38 schools in La Crosse County, Central High School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 48 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
Bangor Elementary School	0.7%	293
Bangor Middle/High School	0.6%	346
Central High School	4.8%	1,008
Coulee Montessori Charter School	4.8%	147
Coulee Region Virtual Academy	8.1%	86
Eagle Bluff Elementary School	0.9%	466
Emerson Elementary School	5.1%	311
Evergreen Elementary School	0.3%	342
Hamilton Elementary School	17.5%	154
Hintgen Elementary School	6.1%	246
Holmen High School	0.6%	1,212
Holmen Middle School	0.6%	892
Holmen Public Preschool	1%	198
La Crosse Offsite Preschool	4.3%	93
La Crosse Polytechnic School	5%	120
Lincoln Middle School	7.9%	277
Logan High School	6.1%	754
Logan Middle School	6.5%	369
Longfellow Middle School	3.1%	489
North Woods International School	6.8%	294
Northern Hills Elementary School	0.8%	489
Northside Elementary School	9.8%	256
Onalaska High School	2.4%	933
Onalaska Middle School	1.3%	673
Pertzsch Elementary School	2.1%	374
Prairie View Elementary School	0.4%	463
Sand Lake Elementary School	1.3%	388
School of Technology and Arts I	1.7%	116
School of Technology and Arts II	4.4%	23
Southern Bluffs Elementary School	1%	317
Spence Elementary School	4.8%	335
State Road Elementary School	1.9%	311
Summit Environmental School	4.2%	286
Viking Elementary School	0.5%	384
West Salem Elementary School	0.4%	692
West Salem High School	0.5%	605
West Salem Middle School	0.9%	564