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There were 3,454 white students enrolled in Clark County schools in the 2022-23 school year, 2.3% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction report.

Data showed that Clark County welcomed 4,581 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 75.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 21 schools in Clark County, Neillsville Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 367 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
Abbotsford Elementary School	27.1%	388
Abbotsford Middle/Senior High School	41.6%	404
Colby Elementary School	60.6%	353
Colby High School	73.4%	304
Colby Middle School	50.7%	217
Granton Elementary School	86.6%	119
Granton High School	84.1%	107
Greenwood Elementary School	94.9%	197
Greenwood High School	89.7%	165
Little Stars Pre-School	81.8%	44
Loyal Elementary School	90.7%	204
Loyal High School	89.7%	155
Loyal Middle School	88.3%	111
Neillsville Elementary School	93.2%	394
Neillsville High School	91.8%	268
Neillsville Middle School	90.7%	182
Owen-Withee Elementary School	79.3%	213
Owen-Withee High School	88.6%	123
Owen-Withee Junior High School	86.8%	106
Thorp Elementary School	93.7%	362
Thorp High School	97.6%	165