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There were 4,195 white students enrolled in Trempealeau County districts in the 2022-23 school year, 1.2% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Trempealeau County welcomed 5,957 students during the 2022-23 school year. Among them, white students comprised 70.4% of the student body, making them the most represented ethnicity in the county districts.

Among the seven districts in Trempealeau County, Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2022-23 school year, with a total of 1,238 students.

The main offices of all districts mentioned in the story are located in cities associated with Trempealeau 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 white Students	Total Enrollment
Arcadia School District	21.9%	1,283
Blair-Taylor School District	89.4%	632
Eleva-Strum School District	89.2%	667
Galesville-Ettrick-Trempealeau School District	90.8%	1,364
Independence School District	45.8%	432
Osseo-Fairchild School District	90.9%	806
Whitehall School District	75.7%	773