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There were 5,523 white students enrolled in Monroe County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 1.6% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Monroe County schools welcomed 6,983 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 79.1% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 24 schools in Monroe County, Tomah High School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 766 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
Brookwood High School	75.6%	274
Cashton Elementary School	87%	292
Cashton Middle/High School	88.1%	327
Herrman Elementary School	72.7%	604
Innovations STEM Academy	80.7%	88
La Grange Elementary School	79.8%	406
Lemonweir Elementary School	77.1%	275
Miller Elementary School	80.3%	239
Norwalk-Ontario-Wilton Elementary School	80.9%	330
Oakdale Elementary School	82.3%	79
Robert Kupper Learning Center	81.1%	37
Southside Early Learning Center	73.5%	298
Sparta Alternative Independent Learning School	55.6%	63
Sparta High School	75.3%	854
Sparta Meadowview Middle School	73%	706
Sparta Montessori School	77.4%	181
Timber PUPS Learning Center	74.3%	35
Tomah Area Montessori School	87.3%	63
Tomah High School	84.9%	902
Tomah Middle School	82.1%	681
Warrens Elementary School	92.3%	143
Wyeville Elementary School	79.3%	106