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There were 1,380 Asian students enrolled in La Crosse County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 1% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that La Crosse County welcomed 15,378 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, Asian students comprised 9% of the student body, making them the second most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the six districts in La Crosse County, La Crosse School District recorded the highest enrollment of Asian students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 582 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with La Crosse County.

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.

District	% of Asian Students	Total Enrollment
Bangor School District	2.4%	639
Holmen School District	8.8%	3,879
La Crosse School District	9.7%	5,992
Onalaska School District	14%	3,007
West Salem School District	1%	1,861