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There were five American Indian students enrolled in Buffalo County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 66.7% more 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, American Indian students comprised 0.3% of the student body to be the second least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Buffalo County, Mondovi Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of two 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 American Indian students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Alma Elementary School	0.6%	173
Mondovi Elementary School	0.4%	493
Mondovi High School	0.4%	250
Mondovi Middle School	0.6%	168