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There were 1,693 white students enrolled in Buffalo County schools in the 2023-24 school year, 0.4% less than the previous year, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Data showed that Buffalo County schools welcomed 1,832 students during the 2023-24 school year. Among them, white students comprised 92.4% of the student body to be the most represented ethnicity in the county.

Among the 10 schools in Buffalo County, Mondovi Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of white students in the 2023-24 school year, with a total of 448 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
Alma Elementary School	93.8%	176
Alma High School	94.2%	69
Cochrane-Fountain City Elementary School	90.9%	285
Cochrane-Fountain City High School	93.3%	252
Gilmanton Elementary School	95.7%	46
Gilmanton High School	97.6%	41
Gilmanton Middle School	95.4%	43
Mondovi Elementary School	90.5%	495
Mondovi High School	93.9%	244
Mondovi Middle School	92.3%	181