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There were 111 Black students enrolled in Monroe County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 5.7% 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, Black students comprised 1.6% of the student body to be the fourth most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 24 schools in Monroe County, Sparta Meadowview Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 17 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 Black students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Brookwood High School	0.4%	266
Cashton Elementary School	0.3%	296
Cashton Middle/High School	0.9%	329
Herrman Elementary School	0.8%	646
Innovations STEM Academy	1.5%	68
La Grange Elementary School	1.9%	414
Lemonweir Elementary School	2.4%	290
Miller Elementary School	1.6%	250
Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary School	1%	310
Oakdale Elementary School	1.3%	78
Robert Kupper Learning Center	3.5%	29
Southside Early Learning Center	3.1%	292
Sparta Alternative Independent Learning School	2.1%	47
Sparta High School	1.3%	837
Sparta Meadowview Middle School	2.4%	722
Sparta Montessori School	3.2%	188
Timber PUPS Learning Center	5.7%	35
Tomah Area Montessori School	6.1%	66
Tomah High School	1.5%	868
Tomah Middle School	1.9%	676