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There were 101 American Indian students enrolled in Monroe County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 5.2% more 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, American Indian students comprised 1.4% of the student body to be the third least represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 24 schools in Monroe County, Tomah High School recorded the highest enrollment of American Indian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 21 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
Herrman Elementary School	0.6%	646
La Grange Elementary School	3.1%	414
Lemonweir Elementary School	1.4%	290
Miller Elementary School	1.2%	250
Oakdale Elementary School	1.3%	78
Robert Kupper Learning Center	6.9%	29
Southside Early Learning Center	0.3%	292
Sparta Alternative Independent Learning School	6.4%	47
Sparta High School	0.7%	837
Sparta Meadowview Middle School	1.4%	722
Sparta Montessori School	2.1%	188
Tomah Area Montessori School	1.5%	66
Tomah High School	2.4%	868
Tomah Middle School	2.5%	676
Wyeville Elementary School	10.2%	108