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Enrollment Analysis: Hispanic students comprised 4.4% of La Crosse County's student body 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 684 Hispanic students enrolled in La Crosse County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 13.4% more 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, Hispanic students comprised 4.4% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 38 schools in La Crosse County, Central High School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 59 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 La Crosse County in 2022-23 School Year
White [76.2%]Asian [9%]Ethnicities <5% [7.5%]Multiracial [7.3%]
Enrollment in La Crosse County Schools During 2022-23 School Year
School name% of Hispanic students enrollmentTotal Enrollment
Bangor Elementary School3.1%293
Bangor Middle/High School5.2%346
Central High School5.9%1,008
Coulee Montessori Charter School4.1%147
Coulee Region Virtual Academy2.3%86
Eagle Bluff Elementary School5.4%466
Emerson Elementary School4.2%311
Evergreen Elementary School4.4%342
Hamilton Elementary School11%154
Hintgen Elementary School5.3%246
Holmen High School2.6%1,212
Holmen Middle School2%892
Holmen Public Preschool3%198
La Crosse Offsite Preschool4.3%93
La Crosse Polytechnic School2.5%120
Lincoln Middle School7.2%277
Logan High School5.6%754
Logan Middle School8.4%369
Longfellow Middle School2.9%489
North Woods International School12.2%294
Northern Hills Elementary School6.3%489
Northside Elementary School6.3%256
Onalaska High School6.1%933
Onalaska Middle School4.8%673
Onalaska Prekindergarten Partner School4.2%72
Pertzsch Elementary School7%374
Prairie View Elementary School1.9%463
Sand Lake Elementary School1.6%388
School of Technology and Arts I7.8%116
Southern Bluffs Elementary School1.9%317
Spence Elementary School4.2%335
State Road Elementary School5.5%311
Summit Environmental School5.6%286
Viking Elementary School1.3%384
West Salem Elementary School2.9%692
West Salem High School3.8%605
West Salem Middle School2%564