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La Crosse County Education: 408 Black students were enrolled in districts in 2022-23 school year

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WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

WI Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly 2023 | Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

There were 408 Black students enrolled in La Crosse County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 4% less 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, Black students comprised 2.7% of the student body, making them the third least represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the six districts in La Crosse County, La Crosse School District recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 322 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.

Ethnicities in La Crosse County in 2022-23 School Year
White [76.2%]Asian [9%]Ethnicities <5% [7.5%]Multiracial [7.3%]
Enrollment in La Crosse County Districts During 2022-23 School Year
District% of Black StudentsTotal Enrollment
Bangor School District0.6%639
Holmen School District0.6%3,879
La Crosse School District5.4%5,992
Onalaska School District1.6%3,007
West Salem School District0.6%1,861

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