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There were 79 multiracial students enrolled in Clark County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 19.7% more than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Clark County schools welcomed 4,594 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, multiracial students comprised 1.7% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 21 schools in Clark County, Thorp Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of multiracial students in the 2023-24 school year, with nine 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.

These achievement gaps are also reflected in graduation rates. According to recent US Census data, nearly 95% of white students in the state successfully graduated in 2021.

Meanwhile, graduation rates for Black and multiracial students lagged behind white students by 10%. Even further behind, only 71.6% of Hispanic students completed their high school education during the same period, one of the lowest graduation rates in the state.

School name	% of multiracial students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Abbotsford Elementary School	1.5%	406
Abbotsford Middle/Senior High School	1.3%	401
Colby Elementary School	0.6%	343
Colby High School	1%	299
Colby Middle School	2.2%	223
Granton Elementary School	3%	135
Granton High School	3.8%	105
Greenwood High School	3.2%	155
Loyal Elementary School	3.9%	205
Loyal High School	1.8%	167
Loyal Middle School	2.8%	106
Neillsville Elementary School	1.5%	406
Neillsville High School	0.8%	242
Owen-Withee Elementary School	1.4%	216
Owen-Withee High School	1.5%	131
Owen-Withee Junior High School	3.7%	109
Thorp Elementary School	2.5%	358
Thorp High School	2.9%	173