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There were 11,438 white students enrolled in La Crosse County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 2.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that La Crosse County schools welcomed 15,113 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 75.7% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 38 schools in La Crosse County, Holmen High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 1,048 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 white students enrollment	Total Enrollment
Bangor Elementary School	88.4%	301
Bangor Middle/High School	90.2%	347
Central High School	69.1%	1,014
Coulee Montessori Charter School	73%	115
Coulee Region Virtual Academy	75.6%	78
Eagle Bluff Elementary School	70.9%	471
Emerson Elementary School	79%	323
Evergreen Elementary School	72%	329
Hamilton Elementary School	34.9%	146
Hintgen Elementary School	47.9%	215
Holmen High School	84.1%	1,246
Holmen Middle School	83.4%	878
Holmen Public Preschool	83%	194
La Crosse Offsite Preschool	82.2%	90
La Crosse Polytechnic School	88.7%	106
Logan High School	64.5%	715
Logan Middle School	57.4%	462
Longfellow Middle School	68.5%	625
North Woods International School	50.8%	260
Northern Hills Elementary School	64.2%	477
Northside Elementary School	43.7%	254
Onalaska High School	69.8%	926
Onalaska Middle School	71%	659
Onalaska Prekindergarten Partner School	96.2%	52
Pertzsch Elementary School	65.2%	385
Prairie View Elementary School	87.7%	464
Sand Lake Elementary School	87.3%	370
School of Technology and Arts I	76.2%	122
School of Technology and Arts II	82.4%	34
Southern Bluffs Elementary School	88.8%	320
Spence Elementary School	67.6%	315
State Road Elementary School	79.8%	297
Summit Environmental School	71%	303
Viking Elementary School	82.1%	379
West Salem Elementary School	92.4%	686
West Salem High School	91.6%	606
West Salem Middle School	92.5%	549