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There were 796 Hispanic students enrolled in Monroe County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 3.1% 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, Hispanic students comprised 11.4% of the student body to be the second most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 24 schools in Monroe County, Sparta Meadowview Middle School recorded the highest enrollment of Hispanic students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 148 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 Hispanic students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Brookwood High School	20.3%	266
Cashton Elementary School	9.5%	296
Cashton Middle/High School	10.9%	329
Herrman Elementary School	16.9%	646
Innovations STEM Academy	10.3%	68
La Grange Elementary School	6%	414
Lemonweir Elementary School	10.3%	290
Miller Elementary School	3.6%	250
Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary School	16.5%	310
Oakdale Elementary School	1.3%	78
Robert Kupper Learning Center	3.5%	29
Southside Early Learning Center	18.5%	292
Sparta Alternative Independent Learning School	29.8%	47
Sparta High Point School	9.8%	41
Sparta High School	17.3%	837
Sparta Meadowview Middle School	20.5%	722
Sparta Montessori School	8.5%	188
Timber PUPS Learning Center	2.9%	35
Tomah Area Montessori School	3%	66
Tomah High School	3.1%	868
Tomah Middle School	3.9%	676
Warrens Elementary School	3%	133
Wyeville Elementary School	3.7%	108