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There were 1,699 white students enrolled in Buffalo County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 0.8% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Buffalo County welcomed 1,844 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 92.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Buffalo County, Mondovi Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 446 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 white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Alma Elementary School	93.1%	173
Alma High School	89.2%	65
Cochrane-Fountain City Elementary School	90.3%	290
Cochrane-Fountain City High School	93.7%	270
Gilmanton Elementary School	100%	57
Gilmanton High School	94.9%	39
Gilmanton Middle School	94.9%	39
Mondovi Elementary School	90.5%	493
Mondovi High School	93.6%	250
Mondovi Middle School	91.7%	168