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There were 5,612 white students enrolled in Monroe County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Monroe County welcomed 6,989 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 80.3% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 24 schools in Monroe County, Tomah High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 758 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
Brookwood High School	77.4%	266
Cashton Elementary School	89.5%	296
Cashton Middle/High School	87.5%	329
Herrman Elementary School	76.3%	646
Innovations STEM Academy	85.3%	68
La Grange Elementary School	78.5%	414
Lemonweir Elementary School	77.2%	290
Miller Elementary School	82.4%	250
Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary School	80.3%	310
Oakdale Elementary School	88.5%	78
Robert Kupper Learning Center	79.3%	29
Southside Early Learning Center	74.3%	292
Sparta Alternative Independent Learning School	61.7%	47
Sparta High Point School	80.5%	41
Sparta High School	77.5%	837
Sparta Meadowview Middle School	71.9%	722
Sparta Montessori School	79.8%	188
Timber PUPS Learning Center	88.6%	35
Tomah Area Montessori School	83.3%	66
Tomah High School	87.3%	868
Tomah Middle School	83.1%	676
Warrens Elementary School	92.5%	133
Wyeville Elementary School	74.1%	108